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008251Bloomington IN: Dogen Institute SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR the noted Dogen scholar Shohaku Okumura at title page. An elegant handmade book in string-tied embossed paper boards with gilt lettering hand-made paper likely a very limited number printed. No date circa 2010-2015 OCLC has no listing for this title. Fine as issued. The Waka are in Japanese and English commentary in English. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. First Edition. String Tied. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dogen Institute Paperback books
198351829Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind on spine and front cover; marbled endpapers; dustjacket; iv396pp; with illustrations by Roswitha Quadflieg. Spine ends gently nudged tiny owners ink name to front pastedown else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $15.95 with some light wear and creasing to extremities and a tiny tear at upper rear flap fold. The German author's best-known work first published in 1979 as Die unendliche Geschichte. Basis for Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 film of the same name. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
196418146New York: Farrar Straus & Company 1964. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 black paper over boards quarterbound in black cloth with titles stamped in gilt and red on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 306pp. Bookplate signed by Fuentes loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with some trivial wear along the edges and a single short tear along upper front joint. Farrar, Straus & Company unknown books
17061303990Venezia 1706. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 240; Fair; brown spine with gilt text; Genealogy of Jesus Christ According to the Flesh never published in English 19th century translation from Italian to English; Ownership of this manuscript conveys copyright; Book of manuscript handwritten; quarter leather with marbleized boards have moderate to severe wear to exterior spine has heavy chipping half of spine's exterior is missing but still attached to boards title label to spine intact; lower corner of front board bent chipped and missing leather; corners of boards adjacent to spine is bumped and rubbing to marbled boards; text block have light staining on the first five pages darkening to exterior edges; Additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1303990. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. hardcover books
191141840New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1911. First American edition with Robinson's illustrations. Small quarto 26cm; blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt gray and green on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvi2111pp with 25 inserted leaves bearing tipped-in color illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Dorothy Peck Clark to front pastedown; light wear to spine ends and corners top edge gilt a bit dulled with a faint diagonal crease to first illustration; hinges sound; Very Good lacking the original glassine and publisher's box. Handsome edition of this dramatic work by the Belgian playwright and poet adapted into film six times between 1910-2011. Dodd, Mead and Company unknown books
195551455London: Faber and Faber 1955. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 67-2222pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine ends gently nudged some faint foxing to endpapers else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s.6d. net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with some faint scattered foxing and dustiness; Very Good. The Polish-American Nobel Prize-winner's second regularly published book a story of "the chaotic horror of the Warsaw rising - when the Red Army stood implacably idel on the Vistula - into the constricting gloom of the Russian occupation; into a poisoned and infected world a world of equivocation and 'double think' where integrity and honesty have become dangerous eccentricities" from front flap. Faber and Faber unknown books
1948262066Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn a few small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
1948261326Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn rear wrap soiled small tear on front wrap at staple else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
1948256766Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
19781335880Leiden: E.J. Brill 1978. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; pp 345; green spine with gilt text; no jacket; odd volume; cloth shows very slight shelf wear to exterior; mildly splayed boards; text block exterior edges have slight wear; interior clean; embossed stamp to title page; illustrated. 1335880. FP New Rockville Stock. E.J. Brill hardcover books
199951463London: Harvill Press 1999. First U.K. Edition. First Impression cloth issue. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vi23-2631pp. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced £16.99. Sharp copy of Sebald's second novel and the first book in his Rings of Saturn trilogy simultaneously issued in cloth and wrappers. Harvill Press unknown books
191925375New Haven: Yale University Press 1919. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; 3/4 blue paper over yellow cloth with blue title label printed in black applied to spine; dustjacket; 159pp. Touch of dustiness to upper board edges and upper edge of text with a hint of offset to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn spine-sunned with a few small nicks and short tears; $1.35 price on front panel struck through with blue pencil; Very Good only. Scarce assemblage of poems by the Swedish winner of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature and only the second of Von Heidenstam's works to be translated into English. With an introduction by translator Charles Wharton Stork. Uncommon in dustjacket. Yale University Press unknown books
19981337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
196618081301New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1966. 2nd Printing. Leather bound. Fine. Karlin Eugene. Octavo size 93 pp. Omar Khayyam 1048-1131 was a Persian mathematician and astronomer best known for his work on cubic equations and for designing the Jalali calendar; many poems are attributed to him though with much skepticism and uncertainty in the academic world in the quatrain style. English poet Edward Fitzgerald 1809-1883 created the first and most famous translation of Khayyam's poetry "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" translated from Farsi to English greatly popular among the Pre-Raphaelites during the Orientalism period at the end of the nineteenth century. <br/><br/>This text is accompanied by alluring line-drawings by Eugene Karlin 1918-2003 an illustrator and painter who created drawings for magazines and books as well as landscape paintings; his delicate linework provides a gentle visual to the poetry. This edition is stated second printing; however it is bound in full morocco as the deluxe first edition.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red morocco gilt-stamped line drawing by Eugene Karlin on the front board gilt lettering on the spine top edge gilt red marbled endpapers frontispiece line illustration of a couple embracing by Karlin black-and-white line drawings by Karlin throughout; Bembo type octavo size 9.25" by 6.75" pagination: i-iv v-ix 1-2 3-80 81-84. In a brown paper slipcase with a glossy paper label on one side with black lettering and a full-colour illustration by Karlin.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall with minor soiling to the paper label and to the back board and some rubbing to the bottom edges and to the corners of the opening.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â 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. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown books
1949008760London: Imago Publishing Company Limited 1949. Personal copy of the noted anthropologist and and advocate of Japanese American civil rights Morris E. Opler his signature M. E. Opler front end page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket small edge tear and shallow creases along top edge. . First English Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Imago Publishing Company, Limited Hardcover books
19051328469New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo Unpaginated; VG-; paneled spine is faded leather; binding has gilt tooling and lettering; has minor shelf wear along the top and bottom edges with minor chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and on the for edge corners has minor wear and scratching on the front and back covers; pages have minimal age toning have gilt along the top edge; contains photograph illustrations; has an inscription from the original owner shelved case 0. 1328469. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Dodge Publishing Company hardcover books
198016020555Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio size 124 pp. inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760 and by 1822 there were plantations in the area with more than fifty thousand coffee plants with massive tracts of rainforest being cleared first from the vicinity of Rio and later Sao Paulo for coffee growing. The families owning the plantations built huge homes some of them almost small castles - one of which the Parque Sao Clemente had ceilings so beautiful that special reclining chairs were installed so that they could be better admired. This book explores those fazendas both inside and out to provide a glimpse into this glittering past. The text of the book is in Portuguese and an accompanying softcover book has the English translation.<br/><br/>This volume was previously owned by Claudio Arrau 1903-1991 a Chilean pianist widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan cloth with black paper boards pictorial paste-down of one of the plantation houses inset into the front board with titlte in silver brown lettering on the spine decorative endpapers of stylised palm trees title page in red and black with a small tipped-in photograph tipped-in colour photographs throughout drawn map towards the rear of the book showing the location of the fazendas along the Rio Paraiba do Sul; folio size 13.75" by 10.5" pagination: i-iii 1-2 3-111 112-121 inscribed by Claudio Arrau "Rio de Janeiro 1981" on the first flyleaf. Please note the text is in Portuguese. Accompanying English translation in English a softcover booklet in black paper wraps stapled at the spine with gold lettering and publisher's device on the front cover 19 pp. In a slipcase covered in green paper with stylised palm tree pattern and a pictorial paper label on the front board.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright with the only prior owner markings in both volumes being the name written of Claudio Arrau as noted above and each of the tipped-in photographs is in fine condition; some light stray soil marks on the spine and a small old dampstain on the bottom edge of the spine a few of the final pages have some minor rippling from the old damp else fine. The accompanying English translation is also near fine clean overall with a few shallow creases on the wraps. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall some minor overall edge wear and it appears to have gotten wet at some point as the back is warped and the paper coverings are rippled. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us 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. Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira hardcover books
1936007830Chicago IL: Walter M. Hill. Good. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Green boards with soiling and rubbing to ends and exterior hinges. Soiling on ends. Pages clean. Slight loosening at front hinge binding strong. Inscription by former ownership on front free end-paper. Number 369 of 530. Bibliography critical review and translation of the ancient book known as Apicius de re Coquinaria. With a dictionary of technical terms many notes facsimiles of originals and views and sketches of ancient culinary objects.; Book; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall . Walter M. Hill hardcover books
1967150508N.p.: N.p. 1967. Draft script for the 1967 Swedish film translated into English photocopied for internal distribution. With copied holograph annotations to virtually every page. <br/><br/>Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques starring Sjoman's lover at the time actress Lena Nyman as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden and her own sexuality. Seized by customs upon entry to the US and banned from numerous US cities for sexually explicit scenes it was found in 1969 not to be obscene by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opening the door to more frank and explicit subject matter in American film. The companion to Sjoman's 1968 film "I Am Curious Blue."<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Stockholm. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Vilgot Sjoman and translation credits to Martin Minow and Jenny Bohman. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single staple. N.p. unknown books
197618838New York: Living Hand 1976. First Edition. First Printing one of 500 numbered copies. Octavo; pale gray wrappers with French flaps with titles printed in crimson on spine and front panel; 75pp. Signed by Auster on the title page. A Fine copy without flaws. Collection of poems by Du Bouchet translated by Auster from the original French. Living Hand unknown books
129237N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. <br/><br/>Joseph son of the biblical Jacob is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem in a time when a famine has overtaken the whole region of Egypt and around it forcing ten of his brothers to buy grain from the Egyptians. Joseph toys with them until revealing at the last moment of the play that he is their forgotten and presumed dead brother. <br/><br/>Set in biblical Egypt. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter 158 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
193452751London: Chatto and Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; 312pp. Faint foxing to text edges and margins of preliminary leaves gentle sunning to spine with some light wear to spine ends; Very Good to Near Fine with the topstain bright and even lacking the dustjacket. <br/><br/>First English language edition of Traven's first novel originally published as Das Totenschiff in Berlin in 1926. The novel was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition though Traven himself would create a new translation for the 1934 Knopf edition. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 31; AHEARN 652. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1901008011London: Downey & Co. Limited 1901. SCARCE in fine binding and such lovely condition. Both volumes stamped "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London England for Gelber Lilienthal Inc.". Handsomely bound in half polished blue calf ruled in gilt over marbled boards the backs with two calf labels lettered in gilt and four gilt stamped fleurs-de-lys in gilt ruled boxes top edges gilt marbled end papers. Near Fine light rubbing to boards at edges. Interior pages quite clean. . First Edition. Half Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Downey & Co., Limited Hardcover books
196053321Oxford: Bruno Cassirer 1960. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; pale blue-gray cloth with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; 67-5191pp. Faintest suggestion of foxing to text edges else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped with a hint of sunning to spine and some faint scattered foxing; Near Fine. The Greek author's fourth book imagining an alternate fate for Jesus Christ. Basis for Martin Scorcese's controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ starring Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel. CRITERION #70. Bruno Cassirer unknown books
1931012034Phildalephia: J. B. Lippincott 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Uncommon autobiography of the famous Parisian designer who knew all the swells! Very good copy no names inscription or bookplates black cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Fabulous Art-Deco dustjacket designed by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer worn and chipped about the edges still presentable. J. B. Lippincott hardcover books
