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Colette. LETTERS FROM COLETTE.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Am ed. Octavo, x, 214pp. With a chronology. Translated and edited by Robert Phelps. Near fine in a very slightly chipped and worn dustjacket, price-clipped.
Price: USD 18.00 other currencies   order no. 1025   details     inquire
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Gassier, Pierre. GOYA.
Lausanne: Skira, 1955. First edition Small octavo, 140pp. Profusely illustrated with tipped-on color plates. Very good in slightly chipped and soiled dustjacket, top of volume slightly soiled. A volume in the "Taste of Our Time" series.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1029   details     inquire
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Coulton, G.G. THE CHRONICLER OF EUROPEAN CHIVALRY.
London: The Studio, 1930. First edition Quarto, x + 134pp. A study of Froissart, with 8 tipped-on and tissue-guarded color plates, 75 b/w illustrations. Internally fine in spotted yellow cloth, somewhat worn dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 1031   details     inquire
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Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord. WORKS.
London: John Murray, 1828. 5 5/8 x 3 5/8". Four volumes: xii,362; ii,424; viii,383; ii,429pp., witha frontispiece to each volume. An early edition of the Works. Slight foxing to a few preliminaries else very good in recent hand-marbled paper on boards, red leather spine labels, all edges gilt.
Price: USD 325.00 other currencies   order no. 1032   details     inquire
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence. LYRICS OF A LOWLY LIFE.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898(1896). Second ed. 6 3/4 x 4 3/8", xx + 208pp. With a frontispiece photograph of Dunbar. Near very good in grey cloth stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed and waterstained. The binding is signed A.M. (Alice Morse). Hardcover
Price: USD 80.00 other currencies   order no. 1033   details     inquire
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Haarhaus, Julius R. THE ASSEMBLY OF BOOKS.
Evanston, IL: Charles Deering Library, 1932(1896). First edition thus Translated from the German byTheodore Wesley Koch. 6 1/4" x 4 1/8", 128pp. Published by the Charles Deering Library at Northwestern University, one of their Booklets for Bibliophiles, charmingly illustrated by Axel Nygaard and Wilhelm Heise. "This assembly of books took place in a Leipzig bookstore and was a comparatively peaceful affair, with friendly discussion between books of different categories and times." Internally fine in rather worn and mottled pink wrappers, printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Softcover
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1036   details     inquire
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Madison, Charles A. IRVING TO IRVING / AUTHOR-PUBLISHER RELATIONS 1800-1974.
New York: Bowker, 1974. First edition Octavo, xi + 279pp. A review copy, with review slip and publicity laid in. Fine in dustjacket.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1037   details     inquire
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Nevins, Allan. THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition Small octavo, 31pp. Publishing history, issued on the occasion of Harper's 150th anniversary. Remarks by Cass Canfield are included. Fine in blue paper on boards, cloth spine.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1038   details     inquire
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Wright, Dudley d'A. FOOD FOR GOOD HEALTH AND HEALING.
Bognor Regis, Suffolk: Health Science Press, 1954. First edition Octavo, 187pp. Homeopathic treatment by food. Covers cereals, fruits, vegetables, sugars, herbs and spices. Very good in dustjacket.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1041   details     inquire
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Brown, John Hull. EARLY AMERICAN BEVERAGES.
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1966. First edition 11 x 9", 171pp. Includes both temperance and alcoholic beverages, with recipes, bibliography, and 50 b/w plates and drawings. Fine in slightly worn dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 55.00 other currencies   order no. 1043   details     inquire
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Masefield, John. EASTER / A PLAY FOR SINGERS.
New York: Macmillan, 1929. First edition Octavo, 24pp. Number 57 of an edition of 100 copies of thefirst edition, the American issue preceding the English. Handley-Taylor, in his bibliography of Masefield, notes the publication date but not the limitation. Near fine in grey paper on boards, black linen spine, top edge gilt, in a worn and broken slipcase.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 1044   details     inquire
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THE CRIMPOON, # 27, FOR MARCH 31, 1916.
Cambridge: 1916. First edition 12 x 8 3/4", 29pp. "Devoted to the interests of the class of Harvard1900", and printed for the quindecennial reunion, with profuse photographs, including a large fold-out plate, and a class poem by Walter Prichard Eaton. Very good in green cloth stamped white and black, few faint cover spots. Hardcover
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 1050   details     inquire
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Bentley, Phyllis. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ART OF NARRATIVE.
London: Home & Van Thal, 1946. First edition Small octavo, 41pp. Very good in red cloth and a heavily chipped dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1054   details     inquire
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Cross, Wilbur L. THE MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL / AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
New Haven: Yale U.P., 1928. First edition Octavo, 42pp. With a bibliography. Owner's stamp on the endpaper else very good in slightly rubbed and browned grey boards, without a dustjacket.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1055   details     inquire
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Abel, Lionel. THE INTELLECTUAL FOLLIES / A MEMOIR OF THE LITERARY VENTURE IN NEW YORK AND PARIS.
New York: Norton, 1984. First edition Octavo, 304pp. The 30s and 40s in New York and Paris. Very good in slightly torn dustjacket.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1058   details     inquire
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Howarth, Herbert. THE IRISH WRITERS / LITERATURE AND NATIONALISM 1880-1940.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1959(1958). Octavo, x + 318pp. First Dramabook printing. Covers George Moore, Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, George Russell, J.M. Synge, James Joyce. Owner's signature on endpaper else very good in cloth, worn and soiled dustjacket.
Price: USD 18.00 other currencies   order no. 1059   details     inquire
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Hubbard, Hesketh. A HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH PAINTING 1851-1951.
London: Longmans, Green, 1951. First edition Octavo, xii, 325pp., with 126 b/w illustrations. Endpapers a bit browned else very good in brown cloth, without dustjacket.
Price: USD 28.00 other currencies   order no. 1066   details     inquire
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Robinson, Alan James. A FOWL ALPHABET.
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1988. First trade edition 12 3/8 x 9 3/8", unpaged (54pp). The text is from J.G. Wood's "Animate Creation", with lettering by Suzanne Moore, and color illustrations on each page by Robinson. Fine in boards, dustjacket.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1069   details     inquire
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Cooper, James Fenimore. THE TWO ADMIRALS.
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. 7 1/2 x 4 5/8". First American edition, preceded by the English edition. B.A.L. 3899. Two volumes, xiv, 5-236; 247pp. Foxed throughout, and with bookplates and a few pencilled notes on endpapers. In publisher's brown cloth, with binding and labels worn and stained, and with a tiny wormhole in the gutter margin of the rear cover of Volume I. Enclosed in individual brown cloth-on-board chemises with grosgrain pull tabs, matching slipcases with brown morocco spines, very slightly rubbed. Hardcover
Price: USD 400.00 other currencies   order no. 1074   details     inquire
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Shepard, Odell. THE LORE OF THE UNICORN.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930. First edition Octavo, 312pp. , with a frontispiece and 23 otherb/w plates, 4 figures in the text. The classic book on the unicorn. Endpapers and preliminary leaves foxed else very good in red cloth, spine sunned.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 1075   details     inquire
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Gould, Lewis L. and Greffe, Richard. PHOTOJOURNALIST: THE CAREER OF JIMMY HARE.
Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1977. First edition Small quarto, 157pp., with 101 b/w photographs by the man who, among other jobs, covered the Spanish-American war for Colliers. Edges foxed else very good in slightly foxed dustjacket.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 1076   details     inquire
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Weinstein, Robert A. TALL SHIPS ON PUGET SOUND / THE MARINE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WILHELM HESTER.
Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1978. First edition 9 1/4 x 11", 144pp. Profusely illustrated in b/w. A superb book with extraordinary photographs. Fine in dustjacket.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 1077   details     inquire
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Anderson, Maxwell. NOTES ON A DREAM.
Austin: U. of Texas Humanities, 1971. First edition Narrow 8vo, 48pp. An edition of 750 copies, with an introduction by Laurence G. Avery and a frontispiece drawing by Anderson. Edges slightly foxed else near fine in blue cloth.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1079   details     inquire
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Mojtabai, A.G. ORDINARY TIME.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First edition Octavo, 223pp. Texas fiction, fine in boards and dustjacket.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1082   details     inquire
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Ginsberg, Ralph. AVANT GARDE, # 7, MARCH 1969.
New York: Avant Garde, 1969. First edition Quarto, 60pp. Authors in this issue include Justice William O. Douglas and Jean Genet. Very good in rubbed wrappers.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1087   details     inquire
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Ginsberg, Ralph, editor. AVANT GARDE, #12, MAY 1970.
New York: Avant Garde, 1970. First edition Quarto, 64pp. Very good in rubbed wrappers.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1090   details     inquire
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THE SAAB-SCANIA STORY.
Stockholm: Streiffert & Co. Boksforlag, 1987. First edition Quarto, 169pp. Chronology from 1937 to 1987 (50th anniversary for the Saab division), also covering the Scania aircraft division. Profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Fine in slightly rubbed dustjacket.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1093   details     inquire
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Wihlfahrt, Julius E. A TREATISE ON BAKING.
New York: Standard Brands Inc., 1935. 3rd edition 10 1/4 x7 3/8", xi + 468pp. With many b/w illustrations. This is aimed at the professional baker. Internally about very good, with some edge soil, in heavily soiled tan cloth, spine ends worn. Hardcover
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1094   details     inquire
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Benson, Bernard. THE MINSTREL.
New York: Putnam, 1977. first trade edition Small quarto, unpaged (64p). Dedicated to the memory ofElvis Presley, and based on Presley's life, this is a fable illustrated in color by the author. Owner's bookplate else fine in white leatherette, slightly torn and worn dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1095   details     inquire
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Croston, A.K., editor. TWO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PREFACES.
Liverpool: U. Pr. of Liverpool, 1949. First edition Small octavo, xi + 51pp. Includes Richard Whitlock: Zootomia, 1654, and Nathaniel Fairfax: A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 1674. Liverpool Reprints #3. Very good in slightly rubbed wrappers. Softcover
Price: USD 12.00 other currencies   order no. 1097   details     inquire
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Kinsella, W.P. THE IOWA BASEBALL CONFEDERACY.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1986. First American edition Octavo, 310pp. Fine in boards and a near fine dustjacket.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 1099   details     inquire
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Tolley, Emelie and Mead, Chris. HERBS / GARDENS, DECORATIONS AND RECIPES.
New York: Clarkson, Potter, 1985. Sixth printing Quarto, viii, 244pp. There are profuse, and very beautiful, photographs by Chris Mead, who has inscribed this copy on the half-title. Near fine in slightly soiled dustjacket.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 1102   details     inquire
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ETONIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM.
A Victorian photograph album put out by Parkins & Gotto, 27 and 28 Oxford Street, London, in brown morocco (rubbed but tight and solid), with inlaid brass rules on front and rear covers, other gilt rules on covers, all edges gilt, and with a heavy brass clasp (tarnished but in working order). Internally there are 25 heavy board "leaves", hinged on leather strips, with 50 oval, gilt-ruled pockets, 42 of which bear portraits, single and group, primarily of Etonians in wide-lapelled jackets with piping, with, also, a few portraits of young women (including a woman with a fur hat and muff), and a portrait of a man with a Jack Russell terrier. Photographers include W. Runicles & Son, Windsor, Hills & Saunders, Eton, Alexander Bassano, London, Chancellor, Dublin, J. Moffot, Edinburgh, Elliott & Fry, London, and others. There is the signature of G.H. (or B.H.) Fetherstonhaugh on the front endpaper. Occasional very light spotting else very good in rubbed brown morocco.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 1106   details     inquire
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Laughlin, Clara E. EVERYBODY'S LONESOME / A TRUE FAIRY STORY.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1910. First edition Octavo, 121pp. With two illustrations by Arthur I.Keller. Slight foxing else near very good in blue cloth stamped in dark blue and green. This is fiction by the author of the "So You're Going To..." series.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1112   details     inquire
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THE NEW YORK VISITOR, AND LADY'S PARLOR MAGAZINE.
New York: Joseph W. Harrison, 1840-41. First edition Octavo, 384pp. This is Volume 1, # 1, new series, from July 1840 to June 1841, with 12 copper and steel engravings, pages of music. Foxed but sound, in worn ribbed brown cloth, leather spine, heavily rubbed. Owner's leather book label on front cover.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 1114   details     inquire
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Taylor, Edward DeWitt. THIS FORTUNATE MAN / REMARKS UPON THE OCCASION OF A DINNER GIVEN IN HIS HONOR...
Stanford: Stanford U.P., 1948. First edition 12mo, vi + 29pp. A tribute to Taylor, then retiring ashead of the printing firm Baker & Taylor., with an introduction by Donald Tresidder, president of Stanford. One of an edition of 1,200 printed for the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Very good in slightly soiled boards, cloth spine. Hardcover
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1115   details     inquire
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Baker, Denys Val, editor. LITTLE REVIEWS ANTHOLOGY 1949.
London: Methuen, 1949. First edition Small octavo, ix, 228pp. Includes a bibliography of little reviews publications, plus contributions by Quentin Crisp, P.H. Newby, Dylan Thomas, C. Day Lewis, V.S. Pritchett, Herbert Read, John Betjeman, Denise Levertov, Pamela Hansford Johnson, and others. Fine in blue cloth, heavily chipped dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1116   details     inquire
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Levy, Paul. OUT TO LUNCH.
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Am. ed. Octavo, 240pp., with an introduction by Ann Barr, and photos of Levy as illustrations to each chapter. Speckled bottom edge (perhaps indicating that the book was a remainder), else near fine in boards and a slightly rubbed dustjacket.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1120   details     inquire
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Dyer, Edward O. GNADENSEE / THE LAKE OF GRACE / A MORAVIAN PICTURE IN A CONNECTICUT FRAME.
Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1903. First edition Octavo, 292pp. About a Moravian settlement on the Connecticut-New York border. Internally very good in maroon cloth stamped gilt, ink stains to the bottom of the front cover and bottom edge, top edge gilt, spine ends fraying, slight flaking.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 1121   details     inquire
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Ellis, Edward S. THE STORY OF RED FEATHER.
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1908. First edition Large octavo, 132pp., with a color frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations plus vignettes in b/w. Slight soil, generally very good in slightly rubbed blue-grey cloth stamped in red, black, and mustard. The book is about the Sioux indians.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 1122   details     inquire
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Burke, Thomas. THE FLOWER OF LIFE / A LONDON TRAGEDY.
London: Constable, 1929. First edition Octavo, 132pp. Faint staining to the top of the spine else very good in red and orange striped cloth, with a chipped and fragile plain tan paper dustjacket.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 1123   details     inquire
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Churchill, Creighton. A NOTEBOOK FOR THE WINES OF FRANCE.
New York: Knopf, 1961. First edition Large octavo, xvii, 389 pp., with an introduction by Samuel Chamberlain, 8 maps of wine regions by Rafael Palacios, and an expansive design and typography by Warren Chappell that allows room for one's own comments and cellar inventory. Edges slightly foxed else very good in coral cloth, heavily worn and soiled dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1125   details     inquire
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Metral, Yvette and Biberman, Jane. DEVIS GREBU / THROUGH AN ARTIST'S EYE.
New York: Rizzoli, 1988. First edition 12 x 9", 144pp., with an interview with this Rumanian artistby Jane Biberman, and 150 illustrations (of which 100 are in color). Fine in dustjacket.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 1130   details     inquire
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Prinz, Dr. Ursula. SARAH HAFFNER / BILDER 1979 - 1989.
Kunstverein Freiburg, 1989. First edition 27 x 21 cm., 48pp., with 32 color plates. Fine in slightly rubbed wrappers. The text is in German.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1132   details     inquire
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Engle, Fannie. FANNIE ENGLE'S COOK BOOK.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. First edition Octavo, xliv, 186pp., with many b/w illustrations. A hand-written recipe on a blank page, owner's name on endpaper else very good in green cloth. Hardcover
Price: USD 12.00 other currencies   order no. 1135   details     inquire
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Blomfield, Reginald. THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND.
London: Macmillan, 1901(1892. 3rd edition Small octavo, xvi, 250pp.,with 67 charming b/w illustrations by F.Inigo Thomas. Scattered slight foxing and browning otherwise very good in ivory cloth stamped in gilt, mildly soiled as usual. Particularly interesting is the fact that this copy was annotated and corrected (for his own use) by American writer Odell Shepard, whose signed call slip, dated 1923, at the British Library for another horticultural book is laid in. For once, underlining and notes aren't disagreeable. Shepard was a professor of English at Trinity College at the time, and possibly was on sabbatical leave. A lovely copy.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 1140   details     inquire
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Stabiner, Karen. COURTING FAME / THE PERILOUS ROAD TO WOMEN'S TENNIS STARDOM.
New York: Harper and Row, 1986. First edition Small octavo, xii, 254pp., with 10pp. of b/w photographs. One line of writing (almost invisible) on endpaper else near fine in very good dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1142   details     inquire
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Wallechinsky, David. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE OLYMPICS.
New York: Penguin, 1984. 1st p/b ed. Octavo, 628pp. Covers the records for all Olympic sports from 1896 to 1984. Fine in wrappers, two corners slightly bent. Softcover
Price: USD 12.00 other currencies   order no. 1144   details     inquire
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Deuel, Leo. MEMOIRS OF HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First edition Octavo, 405pp. "A documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports", with many b/w illustrations. Near fine in cloth, slightly yellowed dustjacket.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 1148   details     inquire
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Napier, Charles Ottley Groom. TOMMY TRY, AND WHAT HE DID IN SCIENCE.
New York: D. Appleton, 1869. First American edition 8 x 3 5/8", 303pp., with 46 illustrations by J.D. Cooper and others. Light foxing throughout, front endpaper lacking. Botany, chemistry, fish, insects, and other subjects, from a juvenile point of view. Generally good to very good in rubbed and edgeworn blue cloth, spine ends chipped.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 1150   details     inquire
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King, Billie Jean and Chapin, Kim. TENNIS TO WIN.
New York: Harper and Row, 1970. Later printing Octavo, xii, 157pp., with drawings by Gerald McConnell. Very good in soiled dustjacket.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1156   details     inquire
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King, Billie Jean. BILLIE JEAN.
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. First edition Small octavo, xi, 208pp., with 16pp.of b/w illustrations. Very good in brown cloth, slightly rubbed dustjacket.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1157   details     inquire
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Fadiman, Edwin, Jr. THE PROFESSIONAL.
New York: David McKay, 1973. First edition Octavo, 314pp., a novel about a tennis player. Very slight foxing to fore edge else very good in cloth, slightly worn dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 1158   details     inquire
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Tarkenton, Elaine and Rich, Michael. A WIFE'S GUICE TO PRO FOOTBALL.
New York: Viking, 1971(1969). Second pr. Small octavo, x + 86pp. With drawings to illustrate formations, and notes by her husband, Fran Tarkenton, New York Giants quarterback. About very good in price-clipped and tape-repaired dustjacket. Hardcover
Price: USD 10.00 other currencies   order no. 1160   details     inquire
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(Maund, Benjamin). THE AUCTARIUM OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN...
London: 1825-1851. First edition 7 7/8" x 6 1/2", "Containing Miscellaneous Information, Connected with the Cultivation of a Garden, and Natural History". Two volumes bound in one. Part I, published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and others, contains sections 1 - 192, (280pp),with a subject index preceding the text. Part II, published by Groombridge & Sons, contains sections 193 - 312, (144pp). also with a subject index preceding the text. All sections, which are essays on specific gardening subjects, appeared first in "Maund's Botanic Garden" from 1825 to 1851. No. 1 is "Cabbages from slips"; No. 72 is "Vegetation in glazed boxes" (i.e. Wardian cases); No. 73 is "Tobacco, cultivation of";175 is "Paeonia Moutan, to increase". Some in-text illustrations, and with the margins of some pages printed with a flower design in pale grey ink. Scattered light foxing, primarily to first few and last few leaves, armorial bookplate. Internally about very good in very heavily rubbed and dulled quarter green morocco and marbled paper on boards, marbled edges. Front hinge starting to crack, but more than presentable, and a lovely book. "Auctarium", by the way, according to the O.E.D., means "something added", such as an addition to "The Botanic Garden", which this was and is.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 1164   details     inquire
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Curtin, L.S.M. BY THE PROPHET OF THE EARTH.
Santa Fe, NM: San Vicente Foundation, 1949. First edition Octavo, 160pp. A book about the Pima indians of the southwest, designed by Merle Armitage,with 8 b/w photographs by Gerri Chandler, and printed by the Rydal Press. This copy lacks a required serigraph titled "Pimo Indians", else near fine in slightly rubbed mustard paper on boards.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 1168   details     inquire
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Tarkington, Booth. SOME OLD PORTRAITS / A BOOK ABOUT ART AND HUMAN BEINGS.
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. First trade edition 10 1/4" x 7 1/4", xx, 249pp. The Russo & Sullivan bibliography of Tarkington, p. 112, mentions a first trade edition of 2,500 copies. There are 12 color and 4 b/w illustrations. Endpapers slightly browned else very good in blind and gilt-stamped terra-cotta cloth on bevelled boards, spine gilt dull, slightly rubbed. Hardcover
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Fort, Paul. OEUVRES DE PAUL FORT (FIVE WORKS).
Paris. A collection of five works by the French Symbolist poet, laid in a custom blue buckram clamshell case lined with patterned paste paper, red morocco spine, leather title patch reading "Oeuvres de Paul Fort", somewhat rubbed. The works, all quarto, in French, and in wrappers, were destined for members of the "Groupe des Amis de Paul Fort" and are as follows: LA POESIE DE PARIS, Paris: Aux Editions de la Marjolaine, 1930, #91/651 copies, 55pp., drawings by Paul Velsch, inscribed by Fort, signed and dated 21 May 1931. CONTES DE MA SOEUR L'OIE, Paris: Armand Jules Klein, 1930, unpaged, with a lithograph of Paul Fort, other illustrations by Gino Severini, 42 / 530 copies, initialled, with a cancel leaf identifying the owner of this copy, and with a long inscription and poem, signed and initialled by Fort, slightly foxed, rear wrapper slightly torn. L'AMOUR ENFANT DE BOHEME. Paris: Armand Jules Klein,1930, quarto, unpaged, 59/500 copies, initialled by Fort on the colophon, inscribed and signed by him on the endpaper, and with a maxim, handwritten and initialled, on a blank leaf; with a portrait of Paul Fort by Ignacio Zuloaga, and other illustrations by Gino Severini. L'AMOUR ENFANT DE BOHEME, another copy, 177/500, as above, with a long inscription by Fort, with his signature on the endpaper, and with a different maxim, initialled, on a blank leaf. ROIS DE FRANCE. Paris: Armand Jules Klein, 1931, unpaged, 103/530 copies, initialled by Paul Fort on the colophon, inscribed and signed on the endpaper, and with Fort's card laid in, slightly foxed and worn.
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West, Rebecca. HENRY JAMES.
London: Nisbet & Co., 1916. First edition 6 3/4 x 4 7/8", 128pp., with a photographic frontispiece,and a bibliography. Preliminary leaves through the title page are foxed, as is the fore edge. Owner's 1916 inscription else very good in blue cloth stamped black and gilt.
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Zook, George Frederick. THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA.
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969(1919). Octavo, v ,105pp. A facsimile reprint of the original text that appeared in The Journal of Negro History, Vol.IV, #2, for April, 1919. Stain from binder's glue at gutter margins of endpapers else fine in brown cloth.
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Nader, George A. PROFILES OF FIFTEEN METROPOLITAN CENTRES.
Macmillan of Canada, 1976. First edition Octavo, xii, 460pp. , with over 200 illustrations, including maps, charts, tables and photographs, plus a bibliography. Fine in dustjacket.
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THE PRINT-COLLECTOR'S BULLETIN / AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTORS, VOLUME 1, # 1.
New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1930. First edition Large octavo, 80pp. Volume 1, # 1 of this important series. This issue focusses on "French Colour Prints and Line Engravings of the XVIII Century", with 7 color and 8 b/w illustrations. Internally fine in lightly soiled and worn gray wrappers, inked letters at the base of the front cover.
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THE PRINT-COLLECTOR'S BULLETIN / AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTORS, VOLUME 1, # 2.
New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1930. First edition Large octavo, 105pp. Illustrated. This catalogue is called "Et in Arcadio Ego / Pastoral and Landscape Etchings and Engravings". Near fine in grey wrappers.
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THE PRINT-COLLECTOR'S BULLETIN / AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLLECTORS / VOLUME 3, #4.
New York: M. Knoedler, 1934. First edition Large octavo, 22pp. This issue focusses on "50 Woodcuts,Wood Engravings and Lithographs by Auguste Lepere", with 16 illustrations, and a price list.
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Leonard, Elmore. RIDING THE RAP.
New York: Delacorte, 1995. Octavo, 294pp. First edition, uncorrected proof copy. A few marginal stains in the first chapter, else very good in heavy yellow wrappers, intaglio title and author letters rubbed.
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Moore, Paul. PRESENCES / A BISHOP'S LIFE IN THE CITY.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. First edition Octavo, 344pp. illustrated with 16 pp. of b/wphotographs. The life of a subversive and inspiring Episcopalian minister and bishop. Fine in cloth, price-clipped dustjacket.
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Lowndes, G.A.N. THE BRITISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
London: Hutchinson, 1955. First edition Small octavo, 159pp. Fold-out f/p chart, and a bibliography. A volume in Hutchinson's University Library. Fine in boards, slightly worn and chipped dustjacket.
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Ondaatje, Michael. THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
New York: Knopf, 1972. Advance copy Octavo. A pre-publication printing of two sections of "The English Patient" -- I: The Villa, and II: In Near Ruins, 1-32pp, in stapled heavy olive wrappers stamped in blue. The reverse of the cover says: "The opening of THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje", followed by a six-line description of the book, "coming from Knopf in October 1992". The rear inside cover has a portrait of Ondaatje, plus a statement that "We will be happy to send you an advance copy of the complete work", with details, and a contact at Random House. The American edition was preceded by the Canadian and English editions. Fine. Softcover
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Maynard, Theodore. TOO SMALL A WORLD / THE LIFE OF MOTHER CABRINI.
Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1945. 2nd printing Octavo, xvi + 335pp. Edges slightly foxed else verygood in cloth, worn and chipped dustjacket. Hardcover
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Sudell, Richard, editor. LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN.
London: Landscape & Garden, 1934. Quarto, 67pp. The issue for Winter, 1934 of this elegant magazine, sponsored by the Institute of Landscape Architects, with articles on the peony, commercial gardens, heath gardens, plants in folklore, and a lot more. Very good in heavy green wrappers stamped with an Art Deco design in silver and black.
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Barthel, Diane L. AMANA / FROM PIETIST SECT TO AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
Lincoln, NE: U. of Nebraska Press, 1984. First edition Small octavo, xv, 210pp. There are 14 excellent b/w illustrations. Fine in cloth, slightly chipped and torn dustjacket.
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Chandoha, Walter. HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH CATS, DOGS, AND OTHER ANIMALS.
New York: Crown, 1973. First edition Large octavo, 154pp. Profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Very good in cloth, with a heavily worn and torn dustjacket. This copy is inscribed by Chandoha on the title page.
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Girouard, Mark. LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE.
New Haven: Yale U.P., 1978. First edition Small quarto, (viii), 344pp., with 32 color plates, 204 b/w plates, and 22 text figures. A fine copy in red cloth and similar dustjacket.
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Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. SHOWA / AN INSIDE HISTORY OF HIROHITO'S JAPAN.
New York: Schocken, 1985. First Am. ed. Octavo, xiv , 330pp. Review copy, with a review slip laid in. Some faint pencil lines in margins else fine in dustjacket.
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Millman, R.N. THE MAKING OF THE SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE.
London: Batsford, 1975. First edition Octavo, 264pp. With 28 b/w illustrations and 15 maps. Near fine in boards, and a price-clipped dustjacket with a sunned spine.
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Greene, Felix. PEKING.
New York: Mayflower, 1978. First Am. ed. 10 x 7 5/8", 162pp. , with profuse color and b/w photographs by the author and Yu Ma. Fine in boards and dustjacket.
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Kramer, Jane. UNSETTLING EUROPE.
New York: Random House, 1980. First edition Octavo, xix, 217pp. A study of European social conditions, particularly concerning immigrants and refugees. Fine in cloth and dustjacket.
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Ardagh, John. A TALE OF FIVE CITIES: LIFE IN EUROPE TODAY.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition Octavo, 455pp. The cities considered are Stuttgart, Bologna, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Toulouse, and Ljubljana. A review copy, with the review slip laid in. Near fine in cloth and dustjacket.
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Gathorne-Hardy, G.M. A SHORT HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 1920 to 1939.
London: Oxford U.P., 1944. Small octavo, xii, 514pp. This is the second printing of the third revised edition of 1942, carrying the chronicle to the outbreak of World War II. The book was published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. It includes maps and an index. Faint trace of owner's rubber stamp on the endpaper else very good in blue cloth.
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Barker, Ernest, Clark; Sir George and Vaucher, Prof. P. THE EUROPEAN INHERITANCE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. First edition Octavo. A three-volume set: xxviii, 543; xxviii, 391; xxviii, 406pp., with 51 b/w plates, and 24 maps, some of them folding. The history of Europe in seven chronological segments, each with historical documents and maps. Fine in blue cloth, with slightly worn and chipped dustjackets on volumes 1 and 2, and without a dustjacket on volume 3. Hardcover
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Gay, Peter and Cavanaugh, Gerald J. HISTORIANS AT WORK / VOLUME II: VALLA TO GIBBON.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition Octavo, x, 406pp. Volume II of this 4-volume anthology.Fine in cloth, slightly worn and rubbed dustjacket.
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Acton, Lord. ESSAYS ON CHURCH AND STATE.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. First edition Octavo, vi, 518pp. Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Woodruff. Very slight soil to fore edge else near fine in slightly scraped blue cloth.
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Newman, Bartram, compiler. ENGLISH HISTORIANS / SELECTED PASSAGES.
London: Oxford U.P., 1957. First edition Octavo, xvi, 267pp. Published for the English Association.Includes selections from works by Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, Edward Gibbon, Winston Churchill, A.L.Rowse, and many others. Fine in blue cloth, edge-worn dustjacket.
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Fiske, John. THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIES IN AMERICA.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903(1899). A large-paper copy of the illustrated edition, #225 of 250 copies, (10 1/4 x 6 7/8"), two volumes, xxvii, 256; xxvi, 374pp. A beautiful production, with the title pages printed in red and black, and with profuse b/w illustrations. The title in volume I is slightly foxed from the tissue guard, else internally near fine. Bound in grey paper on boards, white linen spine, edgeworn and with the spine and title labels heavily stained and the spine ends fraying. Despite its faults, a beautifully produced pair of books.
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Fiske, John. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1896(1891). A copy of the large paper printing of the illustrated edition, # 146 of 250 copies, (10 1/4" x 6 7/8"), two volumes, xxxviii, 351; xxiii, 321pp., profusely illustrated in b/w. Scattered foxing, primarily due to tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in grey paper on boards, edge worn, white linen spines, heads of spines with short tears, and with heavy stains to spines and title labels. Still, a beautifull produced pair of books.
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Morse, Arthur D. WHILE SIX MILLION DIED / A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN APATHY.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1983. Octavo, 420pp. A reprint of the 1967 edition. Fine in dustjacket.
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