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193019165London: Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo 464 pp with 48 b/w plates from photographs; indexed. A very good copy with mild sunning to the spine some foxing on the edges of the text block. In the very scarce dust jacket which has internal tape reinforcements and chips missing from the head and foot of the spine and one corner of the front panel. Account of the unsuccessful 1930 International Himalaya Expedition led by Gunter Dyrenfurth which was plagued by bad weather an avalanche and other mishaps. Smythe describes the extensive preparations for the expedition the Himalayan scenery travels in the region--including a visit to the Pemayangste Monastery and the party's successful ascent of Jonsong 24344 feet. Neate S118. Gollancz hardcover books
20081315101New York: Chinese Institute in America 2008. Softcover. Small quarto; pp 363; VG/paperback; mustard yellow spine with black text; full title; The Last Emperor's Collection: Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum; covers have minimal wear to exterior; faux flaps; text block is clean; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; English and Chinese texts; arts - Asian; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1315101. FP New Rockville Stock. Chinese Institute in America unknown books
189914880New York and London: Longmans Green 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv 490; with two folding maps 20 full-page plates many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant rubbing to extremities; internals clean and sound. Lady Brassey was a skilled photographer and botanist and also had an interest in medicine. She and her husband a Member of Parliament and accomplished sailor traveled extensively on their yacht "Sunbeam" and Annie's lively books about their adventures found an eager audience. This book published after she died of malaria at age 48 recounts travels in India Sri Lanka Indonesia Malaysia and Australia. Longmans, Green hardcover books
195614611London: John Murray 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. xi 204 pp indexed illustrated with photographs drawings in the text by the author; title page wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. Corners lightly bumped else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has very mild dampstaining to the upper front panel and small chips at the corners and spine ends. The second of Stark's books recounting her travels in Turkey following Ionia. There is much of historical interest in the book for as Stark writes "In Turkey particularly and in the Levant and the Aegean a journey without history is like the portrait of an old face without its wrinkles." John Murray hardcover books
2007110769Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #32. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
200731945Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #31. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
2020249766Los Angeles: ReQueered Tales 2020. Paperback. 441p. introduction bibliography five essays indexes as new reset 1982 second edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. This is the completely reset second edition from 1982 republished by ReQueered Tales. The core content remains the same as the out of print 1982 edition but the LA publisher has also released a supplement. ReQueered Tales paperback books
1982265807Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. light pencil checks else a very good second edition in yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Revised and updated. The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1982219416Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. personal inscription to Hugh Hagius signed by Ian Young very good second edition revised and updated in original yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Hagius is author of "G.I. Hustlers of World War II The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
198214969Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. very good second edition in yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Revised and updated. The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1890006382London: John C. Nimmo 1890. Limited Ediiton. Full Morocco. Very Good. Extra-illustrated with 20 additional engravings besides the 11 hand-colored plates by Commedia dell'Arte costume by Maurice Sand and seven Lalauze etchings. Two volumes. No. 604 of 780 copies. 8vo. 23.5 by 17.5 cm. xii 4 371 2 379 pp. Contemporary full green morocco binding with fairly elaborate gilt ruling pips floral devices. Condition: binding heavily rubbed along joints and spine extremities. A few small abrasions on boards. Light age toning to leaves which are otherwise clean. <br /><br /> John C. Nimmo books
198710987<p>NY: Viking 1987. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Amis on the title page. Beginning toning on board edges; dustjacket with slight wrinkles at spine topedge. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p><p>The images are of the book described and not stock photos.</p> Viking hardcover books
200920041702San Francisco: The Arion Press 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 29 of 300 copies quarto size 164 pp. with prospectus and original invoice. Leonard Michaels' 1933-2003 stories focused on the character of Raphael Nachman "loyal to friends bashful with women reverent before the transcendent order of mathematics and music" per the prospectus. Written at the end of the author's life between 1997 and 2003 the Nachman series is a capstone to the career of a master of the American short story; the final story "Cryptology" appeared in "The New Yorker" a few weeks before the author's death. With essays by Robert Hass and Morton Paley Robert Pinsky and Diana Ketcham. Collected and published together for the first time and illustrated with nine photographs taken throughout the author's life the frontis and one before each story pulled from the collection of the Michaels family.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full blue "Iris Wisteria" cloth with a titling band of Japanese Yatsuo handmade mustard-colored paper running diagonally across both boards gray mouldmade Italian Tiziano endpapers nine black and white photographs printed by offset-lithography on white dull-coat stock tipped-in; Janson type gray Basingwerk paper quarto size 9.75" by 6.5" pagination: 1-7 8-163 1 colophon one of 300 copies this number 29 plus 26 copies NFS. With publisher's prospectus two sheets folded to eight pages one of the photographs tipped onto page 2 printed on the same gray Basingwerk paper; also with original owner's invoice from The Arion Press dated 27 March 2009.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy the covers clean and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the corners straight and unrubbed the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The prospectus also fine clean with only a few barely perceptable light creases; original invoice is fine clean without wear with the original owner's pen markings circling the total price and a "paid" notation at the bottom margin with the date "4-1-09" and presumably their check number used.<br/><br/>___CITATION: The Arion Press Catalogue no. 84.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
185913797New York: Rudd and Carleton 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. xiv 433 pp illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp on 4 pages; otherwise unmarked binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer a doctor arrived in San Francisco in 1849 and spent worked for a year as the city physician. Cowan p. 471 says "his sketches are rather different from those of many of his fellow-sojourners." In 1851-52 he was a surgeon in the East India Company's navy and participated in the mutiny of 1857 Smith American Travellers Abroad P11. Rudd and Carleton hardcover books
194742833New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson on the title page. In very good condition. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
194715058New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Samuelson who contributed an essay to this volume. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19949013969New York: McGraw-Hill 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill hardcover books
189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books
19661780New York: George Braziller 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. xv 240 pp illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown some offsetting to endpapers; else fine. Dust jacket has some uneven discoloration from sun exposure an old sticker shadow and chipping to head of spine. "The dramatic story of a talented young American composer in the Paris of the early Fifties." George Braziller hardcover books
2012137311Santa Barbara CA: Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery 2012. First. Hardcover. VG/VGDJ has a spine label from a private collection. Black cloth boards brown illustrated dust jacket. 130 pp. Duotone plates. Published in conjuction with the August 2012 gallery exhibition entitled "Leon Dabo: Toutes Les Fleurs". Leon Dabo 1865-1960. Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery hardcover books
198629879New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; brown cloth and gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 12 240pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with just a hint of sunning to spine. Collection of essays arranged in three sections on Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
2005006532New York: Hudson Hills Press 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. John Himmelfarb. Square Quarto. Square quarto 153pp. An extraordinary collection of prints the life work of a young artist lovingly displayed and detailed with chronology selected bibliography printlist and index of titles. Essays on Himmelfarb by Bonesteel and Kramer. Bound in black cloth boads with illustrated dust jacket. A valuable text for print collectors and historians. Hudson Hills Press unknown books
19971326387San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1997. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 206; VG-/G; white spine with red yellow black text; dust jacket shows mild wear to exterior; minor dings to edges; cloth clean; strong boards; text block has minimal wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; interior clean; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders;. 1326387. FP New Rockville Stock. Chronicle Books hardcover books
189021290Boston: Lee and Shepard 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 193 pp 3 pages of ads for Raymond's Vacation Excursions. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering floral-patterned endpapers. Rubbing to extremeities one scuff mark on front board but still an attractive copy. The author recounts her experiences on an extended Raymong and Whitcomb tour which took her across the country from Boston to California and back again. Includes chapters on Pasadena Los Angeles Santa Barbara Riverside San Diego Sonoma County and Santa Cruz and two chapters on Yosemite. She visited Salt Lake City on the return trip. Flake 2398 describes the relevant section of her book thus: "A visit to Utah after 'polygamy was dead.' She attends a meeting at the Mormon tabernacle." Clark was also a healer and lecturer on spiritual topics. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
1987212731New York: Hudson Hills Press 1987. paperback. near fine. GravesNancy. Profusely illustrated with color photographs throughout. Tall 4to pictorial wrappers. New York: Hudson Hills Press 1987. Near fine.<br/><br/> Hudson Hills Press unknown books
