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2567xiii 3 400 pp.; xii 55 pp.; vi 192 pp. Three parts in one vol. 8vo cont. vellum over boards binding a little soiled arms in gilt of Baron de Walckenaer on covers single gilt fillet round sides flat spine gilt black leather lettering piece on spine t.e.g. others uncut. Paris: L. Potier 1862. A nice copy of the sale catalogue of the second of two libraries formed by La Bédoyère 1782-1861 one of the greatest French book collections of the second half of the 19th century. Immediately after selling his first library in 1837 he started on a second which was sold after his death realizing 155439 frs 75 c. Part I plus 13124 frs 40 c. Part II for which no price list was issued. The second section contains a published account of the first sale an index and price list. 4583 lots and partially priced in a contemporary hand. ❧ Guigard II p. 270-"La seconde dans son genre était peut-être la plus curieuse qu'on ait réunie. Elle n'était composée pour ainsi dire que d'ouvrages sur la Révolution française. On y comptait cent mille pièces consistant en pamphlets affiches et placards mémoires procès-verbaux chansonniers almanachs historiques et satiriques; journaux politiques gravures portraits et caricatures relatifs aux hommes du jours. Le tout accompagné de vingt dossiers de lettres autographes des principaux personanages de la Révolution.". hardcover books
193324586Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1933. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Green cloth slightly faded at spine else a fine book in superb fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
193348507Garden City:: Doubleday Doran & Company . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. B001MUTVY8 . A later printing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good a few short closed edge tears age toning dust jacket. . Doubleday, Doran & Company , hardcover books
19962312180New York: Pinnacle 1996. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st printing. Edge wear corners lightly creased. 1996 Mass Market Paperback. Moving their family to beautiful Southern California Bill and Rebecca Moore find the dramatic scandal associated with their new home charming until a series of strange and inexplicable occurrences culminates in their children's disappearance. Pinnacle paperback books
1975150795N.p.: N.p. 1975. Complete set of eight vintage oversize color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1975 French hardcore adult film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso noting the film's English title and several with opaque black stickers on the recto ostensibly blocking out the studio details and French title. <br/><br/>A prominent French politician is blackmailed with tapes of her son performing in pornographic movies leading her to recruit a private investigator to find and stop the culprit. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with a few small scuffs and creases.<br/><br/><br/>Bier 161. N.p. unknown books
109261hardcover. illus. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Norton 1996. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1997UPERCHI00CTDartmouth College 1997. Very Good. Perrin Noel. Child's Delight: Essays on Children's Classics. Hanover: Dartmouth College 1997. 161pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Dartmouth College hardcover books
1818229706London John Murray 1818. 1818. First edition. 8vo. 19th century 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards front cover detached. Good. 257 pages 2 pages advertisements at end. Small bookseller's ticket of C.E. Rappaport Rome. First issue of the concluding cant with an introductory letter of Byron; plus two of Byron's translations of a Spanish ballad and a sonnet by Vittorelli. Includes a page of advertisements for Byron's works; the second page is an advertisement for Hakewill's Views in Italy. Printed by T. Davison Lombard St. Whitefriars London. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. London, John Murray, 1818. hardcover books
19772963bdMelbourne Australia: Thomas Nelson Australia Limited 1977. Revised Edition. Quarto hardcover slick full-color photo. illus. boards full-color photo. illus. endpapers 61 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Fine as New; in a Near-Fine dust jacket with former-owner’s neatly inked notation to flap. From dust jacket: This new revised edition of Children of the desert has been published in response to the many people who have written to the Wallaces from all over the world asking what has happened to the children of the Desert People since the book was first published.Children of the Desert is an apt description of the children of the Pitjantjatjara people for this tribe still live their nomadic lives in the heart of Australia their only contact with the white man or the white man’s civilisation being the missionaries the welfare officers and the passing anthropologist. Through this book Phyl and Noel Wallace share with us their discoveries about these Aboriginals and more especially their children. Although Noel Wallace’s very fine photographs make the first impact the text is as skilful and as illuminating. In a series of anecdotes Phyl brings these children to life. Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, (1977). Revised Edition. hardcover books
1935106575<p>Augsburg Publishing House. Large 4to magazine illustrated no page numbers. Covers showing some wear and creasing some chipping and corner folds normal aging; otherwise about very good. This richly illustrated volume includes several tipped in color illustrations.</p> Augsburg Publishing House, books
193718263New York: Simon and Schuster 1937. First edition. Selected and Arranged by Castagnetta and Illustrated by van Loon in color. 1 vols. 4to. From the library of author-arranger CASTAGNETTA In a special publisher's PRESENTATION BINDING of full red morocco gilt-lettered spine marbled endpapers initialled in pencil on flyleaf "S & S". van Loon Hendrik. First edition. Selected and Arranged by Castagnetta and Illustrated by van Loon in color. 1 vols. 4to. Author's Copy in Presentation Binding with an Unbound Signature. with: An unbound signature the first from the book comprising 16pp. printed on the recto of one large sheet folded four times. <br/><br/>A unique copy of this delightful Christmas Carol book with its lively van Loon illustrations. Simon and Schuster unknown books
193228713London: Chiswick Press 1932. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Tall 8vo. A handsome copy in brown buckram binding. Number 42 of five hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by Benson. 67 pp. Beautifully printed at the Chiswick Press and with a lovely frontispiece by Clare Leighton and with a foreword by Geoffrey West. Published as No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Chiswick Press unknown books
WRCLIT81808San Francisco: California Historical Society nd. Sq. octavo. Cloth with pictorial vignette on upper board. Frontis. One of 1000 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. California Historical Society hardcover books
1885233875Boston: J. Stilman Smith 1885. First separate publication of this work. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers printed in red and black slight cover toning. A fine copy. First separate publication of this work. 1 vols. 12mo. On the verso of the front wrapper is printed "A Christmas Present from Edward E. Hale". On the cover Hale has written in the top margin "Hon. H. C. Lodge" ; further down by the printed line "By Edward E. Hale D.D." Hale has crossed out the "By" and "D.D." and written "With the best wishes of". This story by the the author of The Man without a Country is followed by the three stanzas of Hale's reverential "Boston Club Song". A splendid association copy. J. Stilman Smith unknown books
1915228331New York Cupples & Leon ca. 1915. 1915. Small 8vo. Illustrated with color plates. Original white leatherette boards with color design of bells holly berries and holly leaves. Very good. 16 pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. Very Good. New York, Cupples & Leon, ca. 1915. hardcover books
184821535London: WIlliam Smith 1848. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes in four extra-illustrated with the insertion of the illuminated plates from Humpheys' "Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart" in addition to the hand-colored plates of this edition. <br/> <br/>Dark green levant morocco spines in five compartments intricately gilt board tooled in gilt and blind inner dentelles gilt linen endpaper all edges gilt. Bindings signed The Knickerbocker Press and G. P. Putnam's Sons. <br/> <br/>The handcolored plates are heightened with gold and silver in imitation of the manuscript originals.<br/> <br/>A fine set handsomely bound with bright plates the spines showing only a pleasant lightening toward brown. WIlliam Smith hardcover books
1939288742New York. : Random House. 1939 . . Later printing. . Hardcover brown red and tan decorative cloth top edge stained red. . . Very good in a good dust jacket with edgewear and darkening to spine. . Hardcover green cloth dark green spine title dancing girl device on cover top edge stained red. . . 8 full-page illustrations by Richard Floethe. Random House. hardcover books
193980634NY:: Random House. Good. 1939. Hardcover. The author's third book for children. Stated first printing. Weak at the rear hinge age darkened along the spine else good in decorated cloth. No dust jacket. ; 401 pages . Random House, hardcover books
1970TB13068Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1970. First Edition. First printing Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with a crossed out price on the first free end paper. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with light rubbing on the ends of the spine area and on the folds. "A bibliogrphical novel about David Farragut America's greatest Naval Hero since John Paul Jones." 254 pages of text. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
198544312Marlborough: Paulinus Press 1985. Edition limited to 250 copies of which this is one of 50 bound in cloth and accompanied by signed proofs of the four engravings copy no. 21 small 4to unpaged; wood engravings plus four numbered and signed proof copies loose as issued in printed bifolium; original grey cloth-backed boards plate printed in grey mounted to upper cover printed paper spine lable matching cloth slipcase; fine. Colophon signed by the author and the artist. Printed by Jonathan Stephenson at the Rocket Press. <br/><br/> Paulinus Press hardcover books
193127682London: Hutchinson & Company. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges slightly cracked spine ends bumped Good . Hutchinson & Company hardcover books
1983708825NY: E.P. Dutton. 1983. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
2001Embry 186901Westcliffe 2001. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W illustrations and photos. Westcliffe, 2001. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2006Embry 194711American Historical Press 2006. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with light crease to upper front panel in mylar cover. B&W and color illustrations. Inscribed by Tom Noel. American Historical Press, 2006. First edition, first printing. unknown books
41491Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Victoria Australia: Kookaburra Technical Pub. 1970. This is series one number ten of the Technical Manual series. It is a soft bound copy in pictorial paper wrappers. Overall a very good copy. . Other hardcover books
