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184653670Albany: Erastus H. Pease 1846. 16mo 14.5cm. Publisher's morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards; 74pp; illus. Slight scuffing to spine but a tight well-preserved copy Very Good or better. <br/><br/>Catechism for primary-school readers on agronomy fertilizers and other soil amendments for agricultural production. Includes a substantial introduction for American readers by John Pitkin Norton a Connecticut agriculturalist and student of J.F.W. Johnston and testimonials from American authorities including Benjamin Silliman Benjamin P. Johnson and others. Wood-engraved text figures illustrating chemical apparati to accompany lectures. Erastus H. Pease unknown books
189644448Mexico: Imprenta del Museo Nacional 1896. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good extremities worn split at tail of spine contents faintly browned otherwise clean. xv 35 pp. 1 pp. aviso on verso of rear wrapper. Illus. with 57 b/w drawings. 8vo. Museo Nacional Catálogo no. 4. Human and animal abnormalities such as Siamese twins etc. Illustrated. Palau 246824. Imprenta del Museo Nacional unknown books
19368558New York: International Publishers 1936. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Private ownership stamp of A.C. Perlman to front endpaper. Tight straight copy in quite decent jacket chipped along upper extremities slightly soiled on rear panel; Very Good. Selections of Gold's newspaper commentaries most originally published in The Daily Worker and New Masses. International Publishers unknown books
199959696Berkeley:: University of California Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0520221877 . Black and white photographs throughout. Edited by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Hartman Flacks. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . University of California Press, hardcover books
1999036050Berkeley Etc.: University of California Press 1999. Edited by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Miriam Harman Flacks. xvi 141p. b/w illus. music dj S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. University of California Press unknown books
1967WRCLIT78361Boston: The Horn Book Inc. 1967. Stiff printed wrappers. Frontispiece. Black & white plates. Fourth edition updated. List of recommended editions by Helen Adams Masten. Essay originally published in THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE February 1947. Fine. The Horn Book, Inc. unknown books
194643558Boston: Meador Publishing Company 1946. 1st Edition Brignano 249. Greenish-grey cloth binding with gilt stamping. White black & orange dust jacket later issue "Stephens" corrected to "Steffens" in rear panel advert. A Nr Fine book in a VG jacket which has an ever-so-slightly sun-tanned spine panel. Withal a quite nice copy. 315 5 blank pp. Frontispiece of the author. 8vo. <br/><br/>"Carrying the account of his life to about 1930 the Harvard-educated author writes of his youth in Boston his combat service for the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War his business and civic activities in Harlem during the 1920s and his employment in Syracuse by the New York Civil Service. He was also a professional photographer." Brignano. Meador Publishing Company hardcover books
190643671n. p. 1906. 1st printing presumed. Pale green paper wrappers stapled with b/w graphic to front wrapper. Modest wear. Light age-toning to wrappers. VG. 22 2 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographic images & with drawings. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Departing San Francisco on the 17th and LA on the 18th one is invited to tour old Mexico via SP's "fine vestibuled Pullman sleepers." The pamphlet then goes on to describe the many allures of Mexico including Chihuahua Zacatecas & San Luis Potosi to name a few. Uncommon. unknown books
192838527London: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; purple cloth with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean small stain to lower left corner of front board with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned with some rubbing to joints and a few small nicks and short tears; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Uncommon particularly in dustjacket - among the titles by American author's published during Knopf's short-lived London years. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
192738380Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc 1927. Reprint. Octavo 20.75cm; dark red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; viii280pp; illus. Slight forward lean spine ends gently nudged with a handful of small stains to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is edgeworn spine-sunned with a few small chips at spine ends several short tears and attendant creases; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc unknown books
1994883.1New York: Hyperion 1994. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. F bpt/F. 239 pp. Sm. 8vo. <br/><br/>Author's first book. Hyperion hardcover books
1780SAV109Paris: Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois 1780. Hardcover. Good. 1780-1781. Sixteen volumes pocket 18mo 133 x 74mm. Printed on fine laid paper. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled French calf ruled in gilt with olive morocco lettering labels marbled endpapers gilt edges. This beautiful miniature set was executed at the solitary expense of the Count d'Artois 1757-1830 later Charles X of France and numbered in full 64 volumes; the aim of which collected various sets of French works in verse and prose. Influential Enlightenment writers were thus compiled here many of them French female authors and limited to an overall printing of 100 copies by the famed printer Didot of Paris. Consisting: 1 DE LA FAYETTE Madame 1634-1693. "Zayde." 1780. 3 vols. 156 135 and 166pp. A classic novel with stories on the political social and cultural communities of early modern Spain. 2 DAUCORT Claude Godard d'Aucour 1768-1826. "Le Berceau de la France." 1780. 2 vols. 175 and 152pp. Rare first published in 1744 as a history of French civilization. 3 RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "l'Histoire d'Aloïse de Livarot." 1780. 77pp. 4RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "Les Amours de Roger et de Gertrude." 1780. 79pp. 5 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. “Ismene and Ismenias. Roman Grec." 1780. 115pp. 6 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Le Prince Gerard Comte de Nevers et la Belle Euriant sa mie." 1780. 171pp. 7 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire du petit Jehan de Saint." 1780. 182pp. 8TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire de Tristan de Léonois." 1781. 212pp.9 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. "Confessions du comte de ." 1781. 2 vols. 129 and 128pp. First published in 1742 a popular "portrait gallery" of the illustrious French. 10 TENCIN Claudine Guérin de 1682-1749. "Le Siege de Calais.” 1781. 2 vols. 122 and 126pp. First published anonymously in 1739. 11ARNAUD François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' 1718-1805. “Sargines.” 1781. 130pp. Good. Only light edgewear and some bumped corners slightest spots otherwise crisp and clean interior. The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. <br/><br/>The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné (collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois) hardcover books
193048832New York: American Sports Publishing Company 45 Rose Street 1930. 1st printing. Red paper covers. General wear with most of the spine paper abraded away. Name label to lower portion of front cover. Age-toning to text paper. An About VG copy. 182 6 pp. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. Drawing of baseball diamond. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Fairly scarce publication on college baseball OCLC records just 2 institutional holdings. American Sports Publishing Company, 45 Rose Street unknown books
195855794Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 5 Held in Dublin 2 September 1955. Numerous textual figures. Cambridge: at the University Press 1958. First edition. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped with some browning and mild wear along the extremities; otherwise a very good copy. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover books
200822827Portland and Various 2008-2018 and counting. The collection is in generally fine condition. Complete with all inserts booklets ephemera etc. Lacking only perishables which were eaten by your cataloguer and occasional assorted Powell's swag mugs totes and like which were also appropriated by your cataloguer. More than 125 columes in total a complete inventory is available. <br/><br/>For more than ten years and over seventy installments Powell's Books Portland has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSIBLE series a subscription-only selection of specially-produced typically limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature Claire Messud George Saunders Michael Chabon Annie Proulx Donna Tartt J.M. Coetzee Jeffrey Eugenides Jonathan Franzen Siri Hustvedt and publishing MsSweeney's Graywolf Algonquin. Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release as well as one of more promotional titles usually ARCs or like but sometimes advance excerpts. We've been subscribers since volume one and over the ensuing decade this collection has come to represent one of the most diverse and vibrant portraits of contemporary letters and modern bookselling around — a tribute to both independent publishing and independent bookselling. With limitations for the initial installments were in the low hundreds not an easy collection to recreate esp. with all included ephemera and inserts — most of which include interviews with the featured writers not published elsewhere. A biographically and bibliographically significant collection. Price is as of current volume #76. Subscription will be maintained until sold. Price therefore subject to change. unknown books
191340880New York: The Macmillan Company 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; dark blue cloth blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine and front cover; viii 448 8pp ads. Neat contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper a "Dr. L.W. Truman". Mild external wear with light rubbing to corners and spine ends; hinges very lightly pulled; a clean and unmarked copy easily Very Good. Among the more nuanced Socialist novels of the 'teens and according to Rideout one of the first serious portrayals of the I.W.W. in American fiction. The book is also noteworthy for offering a woman protagonist who in contrast to the formulaic society-girl-turned-socialist so common to the radical "conversion" novels of the period is here a sweatshop worker who must do battle with her instinctive militancy which initially attracts her to the IWW to finally join the Socialist Party. RIDEOUT p.294. HANNA 508. The Macmillan Company unknown books
54088vpub vd. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter contemporary calf red morocco spine label. Top spine end chipped extremities and boards rubbed but still a sturdy copy. 1 vols. 8vo. All these titles are scarce. The Huet Ruisseau and "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" do not appear in NUC. "Recueil de Stances" does not appear in NUC either though it does locate books by Daniel Rogers 1573-1652 under the pseudonym D.R.B. on similar subjects in English; this may be a later translation into French. NUC does not seem to locate this particular "Ode au Roy". For "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" see Brunet V: 1148. An interesting and elusive collection of titles. vpub unknown books
2015194640Halifax & Oakland: Fernwood Publishing & PM Press 2015. Paperback. 170p. wraps. NEW. Fernwood Publishing & PM Press paperback books
1664D14599Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu Louis and Daniel Elzevier 1664. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes in one. 24 1037 3; 2 820 2 pp. 8vo. 195 x 116 mm bound in contemporary German pigskin remains of two ties at fore-edge edges stained red. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu Louis and Daniel Elzevier 1664. Editio Nova Prioribus Correctior. A fine edition of the most comprehensive digest of Roman legislation the basis for all modern civil law. The work was first compiled by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and the first three parts The Institutes Pandects and Codex appeared between 529 and 535. A fourth part the Novellae was added subsequently containing a collection of Imperial legislation up to the year 565. After a four century lull in classical scholarship the eleventh century witnessed a revival of interest in Roman law in western Europe. Copies of the Corpus again began to be copied in great abundance as they had been when the work was first compiled in the sixth century and the work certainly acted as a guide to the foundation of modern national legal systems throughout Europe. The title itself "Corpus Juris Civilis" was a sixteenth century application. The full page engraved title page in contemporary hand-colouring shows a portrait of Justinian surrounded by allegorical figures with Justice at the top. The present copy also contains copious manuscript notes in a contemporary hand. <br/><br/> Johannes Blaeu, Louis and Daniel Elzevier hardcover books
190739655Santiago: Imprenta Cervantes 1907. Second edition. Paper wrappers. Spine ends and rear wrapper chipped and trimmed volume number corrected on front wrapper first signature loose leaves browned. 209 1 pp. Palau 361637. Imprenta Cervantes unknown books
19729027460London: George Allen and Unwin 1972. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. With glossary and index. 222 pages. <br/><br/> George Allen and Unwin hardcover books
1978170210Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România 1978. 159 p. 9 leaves of plates hardcover generally very good corners bumped; extensive illustrations of excavated pottery. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România unknown books
1985255710Mexico: Editora del Sureste 1985. First. hardcover. very good-/very good. Hormiguero Rio Bec El Tigre. Many Illus. some in color. 200pp. 4to tan cloth d.w. back inner hinge repaired to margin of many pages lightly creased. Mexico: Editora del Sureste 1985. First Edition<br/><br/> Signed by the author.<br/><br/> Editora del Sureste unknown books
195525180México: Fondo De Cultura Economica 1955. Lacks front end paper; weak interior hinge. 115p. plus frontis b/w illus. maps. Fondo De Cultura Economica unknown books
165849004Amstelodami: ex officina Elseviriana 1658. 12mo pp. 24 643 1; engraved title page printer's woodcut device on printed title several woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; spine worn but generally good and sound. This is the third Elzevier edition. Copinger 2552; Willems 1231. <br/><br/> ex officina Elseviriana unknown books
