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198740652New York: Arbor House 1987. Octavo boards. First edition. A tale of the future set in post-catastrophe California where frightening crimes have been committed on the island of Calivairn which is ruled by the Ordebernian Orthodox Church. Reginald 30754. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #40652 Arbor House unknown books
1740185749London: R. Francklin 1740. Hardcover. VG Cover has fading staining peeling edge/corner damage. Part of title block missing. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. Brwon leather boards. Red title block with gilt lettering on 5 raised band spine. 364 page illustrations some fold-out. Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys. R. Francklin hardcover books
017052author Chaska Minnesota 1975. First Edition. Quarto. Inscribed by the author 86 pp. illustrations by photograph and drawings bound in bound in yellow cloth pictorially stamped in black spine lettering black a bit of off-setting to free endpaper from news clipping otherwise near fine in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket lightly rubbed. The story of "Speed" Holman stunt and racing pilot. (author, Chaska, Minnesota, 1975) unknown books
194250749Cleveland: The World Publishing CO. Very Good. 1942. Hardcover. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1942. Second Printing. Contents are a bit toned else Very Good in a chipped Good DJ. . The World Publishing CO hardcover books
195141467London: Heinemann 1951. First Edition. 8vo pp. 290. A fine copy in sl. worn dj. Inscribed probably by the dedicatee "To Hazel and Nigel Many thanks for all your kindnesses & sincere apologies for all those late suppers Jack." A collection of shrt stories. Heinemann unknown books
1971251356Pacifica CA: the Committee 1971. 8.5x14 inch handbill printed both sides horizontal fold date penned in corner. Interestingly the paper was used for recording the license plate and make of a car suspected of belonging to a "Pig" presumably observing the demonstration where these were distributed. Calls for an anti-consumerist Christmas season "To state by our actions during the coming season of peace rejection of a war-based economy. the Committee unknown books
1976Embry 171510Dodd Mead & Co. 1976. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976. 1st Edition. unknown books
1976UGERSTA00LWDodd Mead 1976. Very Good. Gerson Noel B. Statue in Search of a Pedestal: A Biography of the Marquis de Lafayette. New York: Dodd Mead 1976. 244pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good . Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with slightly bumped edges. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
1979175705New York: J. Gibson 1979. Softcover. Good light foxing to wraps shelfwear to wraps and block edges but interior is clean. White stapled wraps with black and white illustration on front cover with black lettering unpaginated profusely illustrated in bw. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the John Gibson Gallery New York 1978. J. Gibson paperback books
137304Washington DC: Center for Educational Reform n.d. 8p. wraps; OCLC lists one copy at UC Davis. By a college instructor on the problems of deprogramming incoming freshmen who have been smothered in stultifying K-12 curricula. Center for Educational Reform unknown books
2003CNJL1250Octon: Verdigris Press 2003. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 10 of 50 copies quarto size 20 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild and the printer Mark Lintott. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 was "one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality." N.B. from the web site of the Poetry Foundation. <br/><br/>"Study of Two Pears" was first published in 1954 in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens and is here translated into French by Bernard Noel. The title asserts itself as being concerned with visual arts and each stanza tugs at the tension between reality that is observed and imaginative reality the observer sees the pears but not as he wills language fails to adequately describe them as they are without the use of metaphor. There might be no more appropriate poem to illustrate than this as the speaker's desire to describe the pears without relating them to anything else is an act of reduction which ultimately expands the image by showing us the many things they do resemble. <br/><br/>Illustrated by Rothchild's velvety hyper-realistic mezzotints which follow the progress of the stanzas each print gradually growing brighter the pears illustrated from every possible angle becoming more definite and resolved along with the poem. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original wrappers screen-printed with a design of green brown and orange with the title letterpress printed to the backstrip and upper wrapper in dark green loose leporello deckled fore-edge nine mezzotints two blind-stamped sets of pears to fly-leaves text in English and French; handset type Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 11" by 11.75" unpaginated with 20 pp. limited edition this number 10 of 50 copies signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild. Housed in a heavy cardboard slipcase covered in green paper and similarly screen-printed in shades of green lined with plain green paper. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean; other than a hint of rubbing to the top corners and a small rubbed spot on the spine of the backstrip as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. <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. Verdigris Press unknown books
1967017935NY: Fairchild. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. New Revised Edition. Fine in bit rubbed dust jacket that's otherwise fine. . Fairchild hardcover books
1967168788Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1967. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Includes: "A Song at Twilight" "Shadows of the Evening" and "Come Into The Garden Maud." A tight near fine copy with a former owner signature to the front pastedown in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor edge wear. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
196728192Garden City NY: Doubleday 1967. First American edn. 8vo pp. 282. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in little soiled price clipped dj. Doubleday unknown books
1974299790New York: Knopf 1974. hardcover. very good/very good. 332 pages 8vo black cloth worn d.w. New York: Knopf 1974. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1974210199New York: Knopf 1974. hardcover. fine/very good-. 8vo black cloth d.w. rubbed. New York: Knopf 1974. Analysis of oil supertankers.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1489NY RANDOM HOUSE 1964. NY, RANDOM HOUSE, 1964 unknown books
1852000374London: Grant and Griffith 1852. All edges gilt. . Front free endpaper loosened. Fourteen full page color plates printed by Day & Son with tissue-guards. Text pages printed by Vizetelly. 118pp. See VBD p.110. First Edition. Red Morocco-grained Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Quarto. Grant and Griffith Hardcover books
1998UNOETER00JRASOMA 1998. Very Good. Noel Anthony. Terra Cotta Pots with Style. San Francisco: SOMA 1998. 135pp. Illustrated. 4to square. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. SOMA hardcover books
1965117467London: Chapman & Hall 1965. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's fourth collection of short fiction a slim volume of eight stories "concerned chiefly with the ironies of self-delusion" as the Times Literary Supplement put it. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #117467 Chapman & Hall unknown books
196744289Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 1967. Paperback. Very good. 73-111pp. Few small spots of surface wear to front else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/> Smithsonian Institution Press paperback books
194221239ENew York: Random House 1942. First Edition. Signed by actress Noel Neill on the half-title beneath the printed drawing of Superman with her name and that of the character she played “Lois Laneâ€. Noel Neill was the first actress to play Lois Lane and is the most famous woman associated with the role starting in 1948 opposite Kirk Allen as Superman in the Columbia Pictures 15 chapter Superman serial. In the 1950s she again played the role opposite George Reeves in the classic television series. Throughout the years Neill has been considered the classic Lois Lane and has made appearances in small roles in later Superman films including the most recent recent Superman Returns 2006. With a hint of foxing to the endpapers and with faint evidence of a cup mark to the cloth at the front board else an about fine bright copy in a very good lightly used dust jacket with some fading mostly to the spine a slight rippling from a cup mark and some small chips and tears. An illustrated Superman novel published here for the first time with line drawings and full color full page illustrations by Superman’s co-creator artist Joe Shuster. Random House hardcover books
189286639London: Hurst and Blackett 1892. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. Original cloth. 19cm. Moderate cover discoloration bubbling and wear. Spine sloped. Contents sound and clean. An uncommon and poorly reviewed Victorian double-decker. <br/><br/> Hurst and Blackett hardcover books
1995127211Penyffordd Chester: Ash-Tree Press 1995. Octavo cloth. Later edition. One of 250 numbered copies. New edition of this short story collection first published by Dennis Dobson Ltd in 1949. This edition adds a foreword by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden and introduction by Michael Cox. "Unusual and subtle stories lacking the climactic punch of James's works but effective in their own understated way." - Barron ed Horror Literature 3-150. "The one writer who comes closest to inheriting the mantle of M. R. James." - Ashley Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction p. 136. The third Ash-Tree Press book and their second hardcover publication. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1206. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 295. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-180. Reginald 10509. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #127211 Ash-Tree Press unknown books
1992RFREANC00mfDoubleday 1992. Very Good. Freedman David Noel. The Anchor Bible Dictionary 6 volumes. NY: Doubleday 1992. 1232 1100 1135 1162 1230 1176pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth with gilt and orange foil embossing. Book condition: Very good. Gift inscription on front free endsheet of volume 1. Front covers of a few volumes slightly bowed. Doubleday hardcover books
