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19264454London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited ; London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney 1926. 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xv 312 pp. ; 19 cm. ; OCLC: 3363061 ; LC: PS3505.A153 ; grey cloth with decorative embossed designs with dark grey lettering ; top edge in faded purple ; includes a poetic dedication to Carl Van Doren ; a picaresque medieval novel by one of the mo st underrated fantasy writers in a British edition and fantastically claiming to be based on "Poictesme en Chanson et Légende by G. J. Bülg Strasburg 1785" a wholly fictitious work and author ; Extract from the extended subtitle: "Herewith beg ins the history of the birth and of the triumphing of the great legend about Manuel the Redeemer whom Gonfal repudiated as blown dust and Miramon as an imposter and whom Coth repudiated out of honest love.and hereinafter is recorded the manner of the great legend's engulfment of these persons." ; slight foxing slight marks on bottom of textblock else VG <br/> <br/> London : John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited ; [London ; Aylesbury : Made and Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney] hardcover
19461386DB1946. Vésenaz Genf Pierre Cailler 1946. Klein-8°. XIX 1 S. S. 21-217. Mit 1 Frontispiz u. 25 Tafel nach Lithographien von Eugène Martin. Orig.-Broschur gebräunt u. leicht fleckig. = "Collection écrits de peintres" Bd. 3. Nr. 23 v. 100 GA 1'400 Ex mit 4-zeiliger handschriftl. Widmung von Eugène Martin auf dem fl. Vorsatz. - Leicht gebräunt. unknown
1765MP009<p><strong>Paris Chez Durand Neveu 1765.</strong> Third edition originally published in 1758. In-12vo $10.5 times 16$ cm. xii 285 pp. 3 pp. Table & Approbation.</p><p>Bound in a handsome contemporary full mottled calf binding. The spine is exceptionally well-preserved featuring five compartments intricately decorated with gilt floral motifs and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco title label reading <em>"AMELIO DES TERRES"</em>. Covers show light rubbing and mild surface wear consistent with age but remain sturdy and highly attractive on the shelf. Marbled endpapers intact.</p><p>The title page features a beautiful decorative woodcut vignette reading: <em>"Essai sur l'Amélioration des Terres. A Paris Chez Durand Neveu. M. DCC LXV. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi."</em></p><p>Pages are preceded by a famous dedication address to <strong>Madame de Pompadour</strong> <em>"A Madame de Pompadour. Madame Parmi les Arts qui ont ressenti les effets de votre pro."</em>. While signed by Pattullo this introductory piece on physiocracy and the economic importance of agricultural reform was famously drafted by the Enlightenment writer Jean-François Marmontel at the request of François Quesnay.</p><p><strong>Condition Notes:</strong> Text block is secure and generally clean with light uniform age-toning and very minor spotting. Binding is worn but structurally intact and retains a very authentic period feel. <em>Note: This copy is sold as-is lacking the 3 folding plates often missing from later printings.</em> An essential mid-18th-century agronomy and political economy tract.</p> Chez Durand, Neveu, Libraire (Paris) hardcover
1657373385Johannes Jacobi Schipper Amsterdam 1657. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. Ornate engraved dedication page from Historiae Naturalis de Avibus 1657 featuring a Latin tribute to George Nassau Clavering Earl Cowper. Rich with heraldic imagery of unicorn supporters crown and arms it frames a putto inscribing a globe symbolising knowledge. A striking fusion of baroque artistry and Enlightenment intellectual aspiration. Engraving 25 x 33 cms sheet 35 x 46 cms. Text is in Latin. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; Antiquarian & Rare; PRINTS : Historic Interest; Printed before 1700; Latin Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Johannes Jacobi Schipper unknown
1767373395Johann Zempel Rome 1767. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. DEDICATION LEAF ONLY. Ornately designed with allegorical putti and a heraldic escutcheon the dedication blends ecclesiastical gravitas with Enlightenment elegance. Its florid Latin extols Cardinal de Luynes Christian virtue classical erudition and patronage of antiquarian art. Printed in Rome it honours both the Cardinal and the Etruscan studies he helped bring to light. Engraving 25 x 38 cms sheet 30 x 45 cms. Later hand colouring. Text is in Latin. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Historic Interest; Printed before 1800; Latin Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Johann Zempel unknown
19252082702114602487Not Available 1925. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
1984029256UK: Oxford University Press 1984. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus 1984. A new edition with an introduction by Paul Theroux. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A new printing of his classic adventure novel. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press paperback
192621963Paris Bernard Grasset 1926. Fine private marbled boards Juul-Lassen. On fly-leaf dedication: "Pour M. Benny Dessau/hommage de l'auteur/Andre Maurois" XII2244 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
1936503667New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1936. Book. Illus. by Detmold E. J. Near Fine Book Condition. Hardcover. 4th Printing. Written dedication in 1937 by Nathan B. Cohen father of Leonard Cohen. Form the library of Harold Lande of Montreal. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques". Book in very good condition. Green covers with beautiful gilt designs and lettering. A bit of wear to corners of covers and spine. Very clean pages and drawings and binding tight. Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. Tudor Publishing Company Hardcover
4447155<p>89 pages book of song lyrics no date circa 1940s issued under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the Caribbean Area to maintain morale of the Armed Forces of the United Nations stapled wraps worn closed tears rust marks from staples some small spots stains small loss foredge scarce item.</p> United Services Organization Auxiliary paperback
1967024057UK: Methuen 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1967. The dedication copy. Presentation inscription and postcard from his friend the author to Edgell Rickword. From the library of John Edgell Rickword his wife Beatrix and finally by decent to their daughter Dr Jane Grubb. Small bookplate detailing the provenance attached to each volume. Most of the his books went to institutions after his death so this book is rare thus. John Edgell Rickword MC 1898-1982 was an English poet critic journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s. After joining the army he saw front-line action in France as a subaltern in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was wounded twice-losing the sight of one eye-and he won the Military Cross for distinguished service. After the armistice Rickword was invalided out of the army. The following year he went up to Pembroke College Oxford to read French literature. His first collection of verse Behind the Eyes 1921 contains similar styles poetry to be found in Sassoon's war verse. Additionally these poems including the much-anthologized "Trench Poets" "Winter Warfare" and "The Soldier addresses his Body" were part of Rickword's already distinctive style. In the 1930's he took up literary work in London. He reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement which led to his celebrated review of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1934 and became increasingly active in political work during the period of the Spanish Civil War; while still writing poetry. During the second world war years Rickword wrote some superb social and literary criticism including studies of the war poets of World War I John Milton and English radical thinkers of the 19th century. By the end of the war he become editor of Our Time a literary review that tried to create bridges between the arts and common people. After this he became Editor of Our Time the Communist review from 1944 to 1947 working with David Holbrook. Rickword had an upbeat view at the time on the possibilities of popular culture and radical politics and the circulation rose as he broadened the publication's scope from popular political poetry. Rickword's eyesight failed completely in his last years though he was working on his memoirs up to his death. He died on March 15 1982. Rickword's actual contribution to the development of English poetry is undervalued even now in spite of the fact that several selections from and collections of his poems have appeared at regular intervals since the end of World War II.The reputation of Rickword as a poet has been overshadowed to some extent by his better-known achievements as critic and editor. And yet Rickword the poet-as much as Rickword the brilliant literary and social critic or Rickword the outstanding editor-has been one of the models of creative intelligence in British culture since the end of World War I. Rickword's work stands foursquare in English tradition but it is in that tradition revolutionized by the same shaping forces of modernism that transformed Eliot's poetry. Rickword with an intelligence and sensibility fully responsive to both French poetry and to English opened up new paths for English poetry during the decade after World War I. According to Rickword "to himself the poet should be in the first place a man not an author." He certainly followed his own advice. As David Holbrook wrote about Rickword's most caustic poetry of the late 1920s: "It strikes home because underlying it is the tragic acceptance of man's situation and the governed urbanity civilisation and joy of a sensitive responsible poet." The bulk of Edgells's archive resides at Manchester University library but the main part of the collection which was deposited by his friend David Holbrook is at Downing College Cambridge Archive. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. Wrapper is very good and bright. Light age toning. Ref16865 <br/> <br/> Methuen hardcover
19238045MaCMILLAN 1923. HB NODJ ISSUED November 1923 stated 1st Limited Numbered Edition #796/1000 Black Cloth with Grey Spine & Paper Label Hand Lettered Spine slightly Darkened VG/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Wear & Tiny Chip To one Extremity. First Edition. Hard Cover. MaCMILLAN hardcover
2092902141800247Baiyo shoin N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Baiyo shoin paperback
19702507300078U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility Da Nang 1970. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Edges sunned. Some water damage. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility, Da Nang hardcover
1822V74910London: John Major Robert Jennings & Robert Triphook first edition. 1822 - 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates 52 on India paper including pictorial engraved titlepage and engraved portrait to dedication by Sir Thomas. Lawrence Vandyke and many other famous artists engraved on silver by Cosmo Armstrong Francis Engleheart and others. Subscriber's copy of Volume I only PROOFS No. 97 quarto half red morocco gilt on 5 raised bands with pebbled cloth sides spine extra gilt in compartments corners bumped but no wear or splits cloth a bit spotted All Edges Gilt. Unpaginated engraved Vol.I title 1822 printed title 1824 contents list 8pp Address in English and in French engraved dedication to George IV with portrait 5 Parts each with 10 Plates Part 1st 1821 starting with Charles I - Part 5th ending with George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Each Part has its PROOF sheets as issued 4pp explanatory text before each plate with price 2 Guineas per part. In this PROOF volume the subjects are not in alphabetical order as they were later issued in 1824 2 volumes. Two portaits have a tidemark of former damp some proof leaves are stained or bit foxed a few small marginal tears to text leaves not touching text plates and text pages on heavy paper white and clean throughout. Tissue guards all present. Beautifully engraved cameo portraits of kings generals authors and other famous people each with interesting explanatory text in rare 1st issue volume of proof Parts. John Major, Robert Jennings & Robert Triphook first edition. hardcover
193248033Berlin Junker und Dünnhaupt 1932. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to frontwrapper at top of spine. Stamps on halftitle and foot of titlepage. VIII88 pp. Inscribed from the author on halftitle to Jørgen Jørgensen "Mit den besten Grüssen vom Verf./ übersandt". From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on frontwrapper. <br/><br/><em>First edition Philosophische Forschungsberichte Heft 13.Dubislav was joint founder with Hans Reichenbach and Kurt Grelling of the 'Berlin Society for Empirical later: Scientific Philosophy' Berliner Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie which along with the Vienna Circle is one of the points of origin of logical empiricism. The founding members of the Berlin Circle were listed as sympathisers within the Vienna Circle.Dubislav focused on a logical and mechanistic foundation of mathematics and physics influenced by Bernard Bolzano's "Theory of Science" Wissenschaftslehre. He presented a formalised account of Gottlob Frege's theory of definitions. </em> unknown
189124497A L Burt Co NY 1891. HBDJ 1891. Early Printing Hardcover Very Good / DJ FAIR- AS-IS 8vo Gorgeous green & red cloth binding with color stamped illustration Duplicates DJ illustration Cover is bright and clean light Wear DJ is Worn with long tears 2" pieces missing at top and bottom of DJ spine Yet Front DJ illustration & Title INTACT Interior Nice tight Clean light Wear Fox 397 pages Ads Thru Little Sunshines Holiday. Back DJ Tears Tiny Small Chips edges Lists Thru Young Mutineer Handsome Cloth Binding. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. A L Burt Co NY hardcover
1945029371UK: Chatto and Windus 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1945. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. The wrapper is a 2nd Imp in the same format and style. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Spine tips with small loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
2080202102500401Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1926N4292ABerlin: Siegfried Alweiss 1926. First Edition . Decorative Original Boards. Near Fine. small 8vo. 16 unnumbered pages. Printed on Van Gelder Zonen Haarlem paper. Very fine printing. With a written inscription on title page ; " HERRN ERICH GOTTGETREU MIT BESTEN GRUSSEN. HEINZ STROH BERLIN SOMMER 1926. A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND FRESH COPY. Very rare. Nearly unseen on the market. <br/> <br/> Siegfried Alweiss hardcover
20172083002116205598Koyasan Shingon sect Sohonzan Kongobu-ji Temple started with a dedication note 2017. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Koyasan Shingon sect Sohonzan Kongobu-ji Temple started (with a dedication note) paperback
188214470AB1882. 2nd revised edition. 2 volumes Vienna Lechner 1882. 24 : 17 cm. VI 609 pages; VIII 664 pages with many mostly coloured plates many folded maps and plans. Contemporary half calf spine gilt. With dedication by the author to Dr. Carl Glossy director of the city-collections with the authorisation of the mayor signed and dated 30/12 Weiß. - Still useful history of the city of Vienna richly illustrated. - Bindings a bit rubbed. unknown
19366413<p>John Lane The Bodley Head.London.1936. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife Clare on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought by me direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow Clare.:</p> John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936 hardcover
1980029113UK: Chatto and Windus 1980. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1980. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1961029114UK: Chatto and Windus 1961. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1961. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
