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1968023233London: Rapp & Whiting 1968 First printing of the first British Bilingual English/Spanish edition. Signed by Robert Bly directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. A beautiful copy. Rapp & Whiting hardcover
194757013Paris: Gallimard 1947. First French Edition. First Impression a review copy with S.P. printed at upper left corner of rear wrapper. Octavo 20.75cm; original printed wrappers and publisher's glassine overlay; 1314-2644pp. Inscribed by Wright on the half-title page to French philosopher and intellectual Maurice Merleau-Ponty above a brief inscription by translator Marcel Duhamel. Slight forward lean some light wear and handling with a tiny chip to base of spine and the usual tanning to text edges with some tiny nicks and tears to same; Very Good in a Very Good glassine. Wright's fourth book a moving and shocking autobiography of race relations growing up in the South and his eventual move to Chicago at age 19 where he established his writing career and became involved with the Communist Party. He moved to Paris in 1946 and became a French citizen the following year. While there he befriended fellow expatriate writers James Baldwin and Chester Himes and was drawn to existentialism after becoming involved with its primary exponents: Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Albert Camus. Their influence on his writing was especially evident in his 1953 novel The Outsider which "speaks from an existential framework about the oppression of black people and the resulting violence and crime - something no black writer had tried to do before" Karny Roger. "Existentialism from an African-American Perspective." Philsophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas 2021. While Wright signed and inscribed books liberally during his years in France association copies of real significance are uncommon. BLOCKSON 4801. Gallimard unknown
1893002399The Harvard Publishing Company 1893 The Harvard Publishing Company New York 1893. First edition. This edition is specially printed and limited to 320 issues This is no. 71 signed by the printer 'John Wilson & Son' on the limitation page. Hardcover. Illustrations By Cruikshank And LaLauze Illustrators. Eight volume set complete. Quarter brown leather gilt over marble paper covered boards deckled edges as issued. Condition: Very good; some wear with minor losses at spine crowns and board corner tips hinges tight gilt brilliant brown leather spines sunned boards clean hinges tight text pages light age-toned vol. 1 - Some pages at heel area - damp stained slight puckering - minor tears at base otherwise fine. Hardcover. Very Good. The Harvard Publishing Company hardcover
19313115868New York: Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. First American edition. 2-volumes. Fine in near fine dust jackets in very good pictorial matching card slipcase. Apart from the orange hue of titles on spines of jackets having faded white and an exceedingly tiny pin hole in one jacket the set is virtually untouched or ever read. The grey top stain is un-faded as well. The slipcase has a chip at upper left-hand corner of pictorial label along with traces of shelf-wear while remaining perfectly serviceable. One of the masterpieces of literature in the Twentieth Century. Favorably compared to Joyce. The definitive novel of life between the wars in Weimar. Adapted as a film three times. You could wait a long time before finding a better copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Viking Press hardcover
194245573New York/Port Jervis: The Furrow Press 1942. First edition. Softcover. fair to near fine. This scarce collection includes:<br /> <br /> "Song Book of the Cejwin Camps/The Camper's Song Pack". 1937. New York. The Furrow Press. Softcover publication. xii 91pp. 5. Green cloth tape over turqoise-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Printed in a two-column format the publication includes hundreds of songs both secular and Jewish songs with p.51-91 including Hebrew text as well as transliteration. Includes a table of contents at the front and an index at the back. <br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> A collection of 45 pieces of ephemera mostly mimeographed:<br /> <br /> -12 programs for Music Theater Dance and/or marionette performances at the camp 1936-1942<br /> - Seventh Maccabiad Program with song sheet 1940<br /> - V-Day Event Program with song sheet 1942<br /> - "Road to Democracy" event program 1939<br /> - "Hadas News" 1938 vol. 2 #4-5 1939 Vol.3 #7 1940 vol.1 #2-4 plus one undated issue 7 issues<br /> - "Marching Song" Song sheet 1938<br /> - 4 individual song sheet 1938-1942<br /> - Undated single sheet<br /> - "Esther Echoes" newsletter 3 issues Aug 1941 and Aug 4th 1941 x2 copies<br /> - 2 scripts for camp productionsincluding 2 copies of 1 production 1940<br /> - 11 packets or single pages of readings prayers and songs for Sabbath and weekdays services 1941-1942<br /> <br /> Some items with some minor to significant chipping to extremities and/or creasing and minor close tears. <br /> Song book with some minor rubbing to extremities and creasing to covers. Some chipping to the top right corner of the back cover and a small closed tear on the side. Ink stamp on the back cover. Interior with some closed tears and light creasing to the corners of a few pages. Name of the previous owner in pencil on the initial title page. Book block fairly tight overall. Book in very good- ephemera collection in fair to near fine condition overall. There are no OCLC holdings of this Camp Cejwin version of the "The Camper's Song Pack" publication which includes the 12 preliminary pages of Cejwin material.<br /> <br /> First opened in 1919 the Cejwin Camps which stood for "Central Jewish Institute" were started by Jewish educators Albert and Bertha Schoolman to "integrate Judaism with the American way of life" - according to the Jewish Theological Seminary. The camps promoted Zionism Judaism and American outdoor and camping culture to the underprivileged children of New York's Jewish community. The organization was ultimately composed of seven camps serving more than 1000 campers. The camps ultimately closed in 1992 but are seem as instrumental and influential in the development of the now successful "Camp Ramah" network of camps. It is considered the first Jewish Summer Camp. The Furrow Press unknown
19344347London: Chatto & Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. The author's first novel originally written in English in 1923-24 translated by Traven into German and published as Das Totenschiff by Büchergilde Gutenberg in 1926. It charts the story of an American sailor "stateless and peniless because he has lost his passport who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction" from the AK Press edition. Treverton 31. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; russet cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brick red topstain; dustjacket; viii312pp. Hint of sunning to spine else a fresh Fine copy with topstain unfaded and the gilt titling bright and unrubbed. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net showing some modest rubbing light dust-soil with some wear to spine ends and upper front panel a faint vertical fold to front panel and a series of tiny tears discreetly mended with Japanese tissue on verso; faint 25p. price erased from front flap; Very Good or better this example without the usual heavy toning to the spine panel. Chatto & Windus unknown
1960INDIANIN016463Longmans Green and Co New York. 1960. First U.S. edition. Preface by Humayun Kabir. Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Louis Fischer. Octavo. pp xxvi 293. Photographs and a map. In his Preface Humayun Kabir outlines how he persuaded Azad ''one of the principal actors in the transfer of power from British to Indian hands'' to agree to the composition and publication of this book. At the time Azad was in ill health and died before completion. The text originally in Urdu is largely the work of Kabir constructed from conversations with Azad and overseen by the latter. The translation into English is also Kabir's.Presentation copy from Humayun Kabir inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''The Right Honourable Earl Attlee with kind regards from Humayun Kabir - 12th March 1961''. The recipient was of course the British Prime Minister at the time when India gained Independence and features several times in the narrative. When Attlee won the 1945 election he received a congratulatory telegram from Azad of which Nehru and Gandhi disapproved as they ''were both skeptical about the Labour attitude to India''.Spine a bit faded. Covers slightly marked. Very good. No dustwrapper it is known that Attlee removed them from all his books. An important association copy. Longmans, Green and Co, New York. unknown
2003001583<p>Luzern/Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag Luzern 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition of 1480 copies this copy No.254. Two Volumes housed in perspex box. Volume 1 - Commentary volume with pp181 with text in German and English Along with the original Latin bound with brown leather spine over blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in near fine condition with a few small marks to boards inside in fine condition. Volume 2 - The facsimile volume with pp43 of beautifully produced facsimiles of the original text and the 104 miniatures of the animals real and mythical highlighted in gilt reproduced from the original held in the Parker Library College of Corpus Christi Cambridge. Bound in decoratively embossed full brown leather with motives of the griffon the lion and the dragon with 4 raised bands to spine in fine condition inside fine. Perspex box itself in good condition with a 2 cracks to side panels. The Peterborough Bestiary represents quite an influential example of the much beloved era of 12th century animal-themed manuscripts. Countless small picture fields illustrate the descriptive and interpretive text. An excellent copy of this beautifully produced two volume set. Scarce. <br /><br /></p> Faksimile Verlag Luzern hardcover
1965002863Paris: Aux depens d'un amateur 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Illustrators. Loose sheets in lithographed wrappers. In grey cloth clamshell box with white lettering. Illustrated with 22 original lithographs in color including wrappers by Leonor Fini. Text in French translated by Andre du Bouchet. Printed on Grand Velin de Rives with BFK watermark. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of the lithographs on Grand Velin de Rives. This is number 83 of a limited edition of 200 copies hand signed by Leonor Fini and Andre du Bouchet on the limitation page. All lithographs protected by tissue guards. The clamshell box is in very good condition with a few vague stains The contents are in mint condition. Sheets measure 40 x 30 cm. . Aux depens d'un amateur paperback
1667117968Paris : Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez au Livre de la Semaine Sainte 1667. 190x130mm. 1 planche n/b gravÂŽe - page de titre - 7 ff. Epistre Au tres-pieux et devot lecteur - Extrait du Privilege du Roy - 1 planche n/b gravÂŽe 752 pages contenant 7 planches n/b gravÂŽes total 9 planches bandeaux lettrines culs-de-lampe reliure plein maroquin bordeau glacÂŽ porphyre aux chiffres et aux armes de Marie-ThÂŽrÂse dÕAutriche femme de Louis XIV. Dos ˆ cinq nerfs. Toutes tranches dorÂŽes. Dentelles intÂŽrieures. Garde papier marbrÂŽ. CharniÂres coiffes et coins usÂŽs. Bas des coins depuis le dÂŽbut jusquՈ la page 33 tachÂŽs. Petite dÂŽchirure sur le bas du coin de la page de titre sans atteinte au texte. 749 Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez au Livre de la Semaine Sainte unknown
2003DADAX0822218704Brand: Dramatists Play Service Inc 2003-01-01. paperback. New. 5.25x0.25x7.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Dramatists Play Service, Inc paperback
44043Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova 5466. Fifth printing. Hardcover. poor to g-. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. missing final page. Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs Song of Solomon and Perkei Avot Ethics of the Fathers the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken from the Talmud. Both of these works feature Moses Belmonte's translations which had been printed in Amsterdam since 1644. The translations are interlinear with each passage printed in Hebrew followed by the Spanish and in the case of Song of Songs the translation is followed by Spanish-language commentary. These works are related in their connection to the Jewish observance of Passover. Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during Passover and chapters from Perkei Avot are traditionally read one each week between Passover and Shavuot.<br /> <br /> Pages 1-91 contain Song of Songs and 92-167 contain the text of Perkei Avot. As stated in the preface this is the "Quinta Imprension" Fifith printing of the work based on Belmonte's translation and that it was printed for the congregation of Rabbi Jacob de Mesa in Amsterdam. Title page bordered with a decorative woodblock motif. Decorative head and endpeices at the beginning and end of sections. Some of the translated text of Perkei Avot contains numerous in-text hand-corrections and Hebrew marginal notes in ink from the period. <br /> <br /> Text in Spanish with passages in Hebrew and some Ladino.<br /> <br /> Binding with spine missing rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Covers with some creasing scratches and abrasions. Starting at interior covers and some other pages throughout. Some sporadic water stains foxing and smudges throughout. The final section of Pirkei Avot is wormed in the upper corner with minimal loss of text overall. Page 103-104 with a vertical closed tear. A few pages have notes in ink. The final page p.167 containing the final passage of Perkei Avot verse 14 in Hebrew and Spanish is missing. Interior back cover is partially torn away from the board. Name of the previous owner in ink on the interior covers and the bottom of the title page. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding in poor interior good- condition overall. Moses Belmonte 1619 – 1647 Amsterdam was a poet and translator of Portuguese Jewish origin.<br /> <br /> Alternative titles: <br /> "Paraphrasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española"<br /> "Paraphrasis Caldaica en los cantares de Selomoh: con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española"<br /> <br /> This copy belonged to Jacob Alvarez-Pereira 1684-1754 who was a prominent Sephardic Jewish merchant. <br /> <br /> References: SILVAROSA 1933 18 KAYSERLING p.181 under bible. Yshak de Cordova hardcover
7982New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1970. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto 28.25cm; photomechanically reproduced sheets comb-bound into light blue printed covers; 1011-1722pp. Publisher's rubber stamp appearing on half-title page with the tentative date Nov.16 1970 and tentative price $7.95 written in blue pen and the rubber stamp of the Crane Duplicating Service appearing on inner rear cover. Some very subtle toning to covers with a handful of faint tiny stains and a few faint creases to same; Near Fine housed in a custom clamshell case.<br /> <br /> Proof copy of the author's sixth book translated into English and together with Ficciones the collection he considered his major work. The volume collects 20 stories - eleven of which had never previously appeared in book form in English - and a lengthy autobiographical essay. While many of these works are exceptional metaphysical fantasies the title work stands above the others describing "a magical point in space which contains all others and in which the whole infinite universe can be glimpsed" Barron Fantasy Literature 3-43. The English versions of these stories are superb; to this point di Giovanni's translations were the only ones done with Borges's collaboration. While no hard numbers are known for how many such proofs were printed marketing materials for Crane from this period suggest they would not undertake a job printing fewer than 11 copies of a proof with other known examples from this period numbering between two to three dozen. Uncommon. Becco 281. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown
19313117938London: Nash & Grayson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First English language edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 316pp. Interior tape mend at upper spine on jacket. Light chipping at edges. Shelf-wear and creasing at edges of jacket. Lovely illustration on front panel of jacket. A most appealing survivaL which is rare to find in jacket. ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 316 pages . Nash & Grayson hardcover
1931066206London great Britain: The Nonesuch Press 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2 Volume Set. Greek and English text. Bound in full dark brown morocco with gilt lettering along spines. Marbled endpapers and inside covers. Limited Edition of 925 copies for sale in England and 525 copies for sale in the United States. The Ilaid is numbered 1073 and The Odyssey is numbered 1210. English translation printed from the first 1975 edition of Pope's translation. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers heavy spine fade to both volumes heavy fading on rear cover of The Odyssey. Both volumes are tightly bound no marks. Set is in Very Good condition. The Nonesuch Press Hardcover
6630Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International 1994. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.25cm; black paper and cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; vi3931pp. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand following the copyright page directly above rubber-stamped name in Japanese: "To Patrick Marks / H.Murakami." Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock trivial wear to lower edge of front board; very Near Fine in like dustjacket unclipped priced $22.00 with a tiny scratch to upper spine panel. The author's fourth book and third novel to be translated into English originally published as Dansu Dansu Dansu by Kodansha in 1988. Rubin 11. Kodansha International unknown
6628New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii45-3271pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand in English and Japanese dated about a month after publication. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock with a hint of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $21.00. Murakami's third English-language publication and his first collection of short fiction gathering 17 stories including "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women" "Sleep" "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" and "TV People." Murakami has always been a reluctant signer who does very few publicity events; contemporary signatures in early titles are uncommon. Rubin 16. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
19723117332New York: Outerbridge & Lazard. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0876900805 . First American edition. INSCRIBED & dated in 1973 by Marcel Ophuls on the half-title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 194pp. 5 3/4" X 8 1/4" 1/2"-inch tear at base of front cover of jacket. Very tiny chip at upper edge of front cover. Some underlining in Stanley Hoffman's introduction. A most uncommon signature in books. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"; 194 pages . Outerbridge & Lazard hardcover
19293116633BOSTON: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket. Small chips at spine ends on jacket. Traces of mild shelf-soiling at spine on jacket. Tiny nick at edge of front end-paper. The film adaptation in 1930 was awarded the Best Picture Oscar. Attractive copy with the Paul Wenck designed dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages . Little, Brown and Company hardcover
16-6401Paris: de l'imprimerie de Didot jeune an X - 1801-1802. 8vo 13 x 20.5cm 8.25x5.75in; Volumes I to V - 341 384 381 368 and 438 pp. respectively Atlas Volume VI . with 17 plate views 1 plate Carte des Iles Hergest 8 fold out Coastal Charts;.Very good.Uniformly bound in 19th Century qtr. light brown calf and cloth gilt lettering in ruled green label on spine top edge gilt tan and blue-green marbled end papers fore and bottom edges untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to all volumes corners bumped and some rubbed through minor rubbing to joints and top and bottom of spines some soiling and age toning and spots to all untrimmed edges occasional spots and toning of text plates and charts. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:16326858; Howgego I V13 Howes V23 Lada-Mocarski 55 London Tourville 4640 Smith 10466 CS. .George Vancouver 1757-1798 was a British Naval officer and hydrographer and explorer of the Pacific and the North American west coast. He began his Royal Navy career at 14 when he signed on the 'Resolution' as a midshipman with James Cook's Second voyage to the South Pacific and Antarctic Ocean from 1772 to 1775. On that voyage he learned to be a seaman and an officer with summers in the Antarctic Ocean to discover land and winters exploring the South Pacific Islands. He also signed on for Cook's Third Voyage 1776-1779 to the west coast of North America to discover the outlet of a Northwest passage and establish British claims on the land. During a Hawaiian stop for provisions he led one of the boats to rescue Cook's body from an attack by the natives for an unknown provocation. Over the next 12 years Vancouver was promoted to command and gained experience in surveying charting and commerce.The "Voyages." is an important book describing the expedition that was assigned to create better charts of the Hawaiian Islands and the North American west coast along with enforcing the 1790 Nootka Sound Convention and reestablishing British claims to the fur trading commerce. Vancouver was selected to command the new 'Discovery' and William Broughton to command the 'Chatham'. The 1791-1795 surveying and reconnaissance voyage of the 'Discovery' was important in the more detailed charts of the coast than Cook generated. In examining the Strait of Juan de Fuca Vancouver discovered the future named Vancouver Island. During that survey he encounter other Spanish ships surveying the inlet and strait Strait of Georgia . Vancouver continued on to Nootka Sound to meet with Bodega y Quadra and negotiate the terms of the British claims to the Sound. Vancouver originally name the Island Quadra-Vancouver Island. Over the years under British control Quadra was dropped from the name. Vancouver's surveys negotiations of British claims and his involvement in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands under Kamehameha were influential in shaping the Islands and the Northwest Coast of North America.The fold out charts No. 1 to 7 are all titled Coate Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Reconnue par le Cape. Vancouver and range in similar size of 10.75 x 8.85 inches to neatlines. Chart No. 8 is titled Carte de la Partie de la Cote Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Reconnue pendant les Etes de 1792 1793 et 1794. showing the west coast of North America from 30 to 62 North by 115 to 155 West Greenwich Wagner NW 853-860 English printing and different scale. Paris: de l'imprimerie de Didot jeune,, an X [- 1801-1802] hardcover
175315244R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1753. Hardcover. Good bound in full leather with gilt accents on covers and gilt titles at spine. Some cracking bumping and scuffing to leather. Paper loss to corner of first few pages of Volume 4 not affecting text of frontispiece. Toning to end papers bookplate of 19th Century novelist Edward Heneage Dering inside front panel of each volume and name inside front panel of each volume. Bindings are intact covers all attached. Frontispiece to each volume fold-out map in Volume 2 present and intact. Rare mid-1700's set with parallel text in English and Latin. Includes the Aeneid Georgics Eclogues and supplemental commentary/essays. 8vo. R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall hardcover
19702091502133904169Gendai shin sha 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Gendai shin sha paperback
19822081002109001338techno project 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 657p Size: 30cm techno project paperback
1965002853Paris: Aux depens d'un amateur 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Illustrators. Loose sheets in lithographed wrappers. In grey cloth clamshell box with white lettering. Illustrated with 22 original lithographs in color including wrappers by Leonor Fini. Text in French translated by Andre du Bouchet. Printed on Grand Velin de Rives with BFK watermark. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of the lithographs on Grand Velin de Rives. This is number 83 of a limited edition of 200 copies hand signed by Leonor Fini and Andre du Bouchet on the limitation page. All lithographs protected by tissue guards. The clamshell box is in very good condition with a few vague stains The contents are in mint condition. Sheets measure 40 x 30 cm. . Aux depens d'un amateur Paperback
1940264525Ministerio da Educacao 1940. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 424 pages with 55 leaves of plates most folded of portraits maps views etc. Plates are reproduced from the 1647 Latin edition. In 1647 Barleu wrote an account of the Dutch colonial empire in Brazil inspired by the leadership of John Mauricio of Nassau who was appointed governor of the Dutch West India Company in 1637 and continued as governor until 1644. Limited edition. First edition thus. A very fine copy in full leather covers over boards with gold insignia and lettering. Covers with bevelled edges. Spine with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Binding by A. V. Emmott & Sons Houston. Presentation copy signed by the Minister of Education with typed presentation translated from Portugeuse: 'Rio 7.7.40 Mr. Judge Florencio de Abreu I am pleased to offer you an example of the work of Caspar Barleu - 'Brasil under the rule of Joao Mauricio de Nassar' translated and published by the Ministry of Education. With the expression of my high intellectual appreciation signature follows.' Presentation slip bound in preceding the half-title page. The presentation slip and front free endpaper have rust marks from removed paperclip.<br> Ministerio da Educacao hardcover
