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19377828New York: The Macmillan Company 1937. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; vi298pp. Small faint triangular damp mark to lower right edge of front cover subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 showing some toning to spine light wear and a few tiny nicks to spine ends with a 1.5" closed tear to lower rear joint; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Attractive copy of the French author's best-known novel originally published in French in 1936 under the title Journal d'un curé de campagne. "A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God" Criterion #222. Basis for Robert Bresson's 1951 film adaptation starring Claude Laydu Jean Riveyre and André Guibert. The Macmillan Company unknown
2080202103700919Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scienfitique N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 2 v. Size: 25 cm Editions du Center National de la Recherche Scienfitique paperback
1950106Oxford Basil Blackwell 1950. 8vo. Orig. full green cloth w. gilt lettering to spine orig. blue unclipped dust-jacket w. some soiling especially on the spine. Cloth-binding. w. minor wear and the dated ownership of Somerville College scholar A. Dennison who has written a quote from Wittgenstein s blue paper on the FEP. Pp. xii xiie pp. XI XIe 2 119 119e pp. First U.K. edition being the first English language edition of this philosophical classic Frege's later so influential first book which is considered the best introduction to his thought. The work was originally published in German in 1894 the text of which is also printed here but the English translation has probably been more influential. Oxford, Basil Blackwell hardcover
19687990New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1968. First American Edition. First Printing a Review Copy with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo 21.25cm; goldenrod paper-covered boards and russet cloth backstrip with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; vi23-170pp. Tiny wrinkle to cloth at crown else a fresh Fine copy. In the correct first printing dustjacket with author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear panel; unclipped priced $5.95 showing a hint of sunning and light surface wear to spine panel subtle toning and mild dust-soil to rear panel with a few tiny tears; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> An attractive copy of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winner's first book translated into English. Basis for the well-received 1999 film El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba starring Salma Hayek. Klein E1.a.1. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown
1967065068Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3 volume set in slipcase. Second Edition with corrections and augmented bibliography. Bollingen Series XLIII. Shelfwear to DJs: scuffing along edges and covers spines are faded some tearing and missing pieces along edges and spines. All volumes are tightly bound. Some erased pencil notation on front endpapers. Tanning and some fading to slipcase with a few tears. Set is in Very Good condition. Princeton University Press Hardcover
191251619Berlin: A. R. Meyer 1912. First edition. Softcover. Very good- condition. Small Octavo. 15 1pp. Original wraps with woodcut by Carrà and black lettering on cover. Authorized translation by Else Hadwiger with introduction by Rudolf Kurtz and a title portrait by the Futurist "Carrà."<br /> <br /> Like all vivacious dogmatists Marinetti is not ironic and the hymn is his natural form of expression. He produces a heroic stance which in its obstinate unswayable monumentality invokes Schiller's shadow. He is continuously mired in that boisterous music of the spheres; a bow finger of the eternal ocean glorious sunsets the valiant death. An enthusiast observing from the furthest edge of his time vom äußersten Kap seiner Zeit schauend; advanced to the beauty of iron constructions and by no means recoils from the hymn to the automobile.' Translated from Robert Kurz.<br /> <br /> Contains Marinetti's poems "An das Rennauto" Addressing the Race Car "Der Abend und die Stadt" The Evening and the City "Die Fanfare der Wellen" The Fanfare of Waves "Gegen die Syllogismen" Against Syllogism and "Hymnus an den Tod" Hymn to Death. Lists previously published works on back cover including works from Frank Wedekind Max Brod Arno Holz Else Lasker-Schueler René Schickele Alfred Lichtenstein Paul Zech Gottfried Benn and others.<br /> <br /> Text in German. Front and back cover detached but present. Some age-toning else in very good condition. A. R. Meyer unknown
1970009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover
174247849Paris: Guillaume Cavelier Pere 1742. New edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. Original mottled calf with gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Speckled edges. Decorative endpapers. Each volume with frontispiece. Titles printed in red and black with publisher's device. Decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials. New edition divided into six volumes expanded and revised illustrated with copper engravings and maps many of them folding. Includes maps of Palestine Asia Minor Syria and others charts and tables. Text in French. Some light wear along edges of bindings volume one with one and a half inch closed tear at tail of spine at joint. Some fading of gilt lettering. Some very light sporadic foxing in blocks. One folding map with small closed tears at fold. Guillaume Cavelier, Pere hardcover
1970010066London: Jonathan Cape 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine small corner and edge bumps prior owner bookplate and blindstamp at front end pages two small spots fore edge. In a Very Good dust wrapper small chips and rubs at spine ends and corners. A science fiction classic one of the the grandfathers of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre WE was banned in Russia in 1921and first published in English in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in a translation by Gregory Zilboorg. The German TV network ZDF adapted the novel for a TV movie in 1982 under the German title Wir English: WE. Jonathan Cape Hardcover
1965056696Indiana University Press / Sangorski & Sutcliffe 1965. Reprint . Hardcover. Fine. 29 Drawings From The Manuscript And 25 Additional Pages Of Drawings And Paintings. 254 Pp Catalog At End. Full Orange Morocco Elaborately Gilt With Custom Tooling Of Shells On All Panels And Turns Marbled Endpapers Al Edges Gilt. In Their Green Cloth Solander Box. Fine. With A 1984 Handwritten Letter Signed From S. Bray On Sangorski & Sutcliffe Letterhead Explaining That They Did Not Have Tools For Shells At That Time But Would Send Representations Of Their Proposed Designs Later Etc. Fine Although Two Pages At End Have A Few Lines Lightly Underlined In Ink. <br/> <br/> Indiana University Press / Sangorski & Sutcliffe hardcover
1922047776London Uk: Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 87 Pp. Light Grey Boards With Spine And Front Cover Paper Labels Lettered In Brown. First Printing. Quite Scarce; Fraying At Ends Of Spine Boards Beginning To Split Along Spine Gutters. Paternal Inscription Dated 1931 With Recipient's Elaborate Pasadena Blindstamp On Verso And Recto Respectively Of The Front Free Endpaper. Quite Scarce. In The Illustrated Dust Jacket Which Is Worn And Torn Darkened And Slightly Soiled From Handling Small Losses At Corners No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Torahiko Kori 1890-1924 Left Tokyo University Without Graduating To Join The Editorial Staff Of Shirakaba A Literary Magazine In 1909. Early In His Short Literary Career Kori Torahiko Became An Enfant Terrible Of The Shirakaba School A Group Of Writers And Artists Whose Works Reflected The Liberal Democratic And Humanistic Spirit Of The Taisho Era 1912-1926. At The Age Of Twenty Kori Began Editing And Publishing With Yanagi Muneyoshi Soetsu Founder Of The Mingei Movement And Around 1923 Became A Frequent Contributor To The Major Literary Magazines Of The Day. In 1909 Kori Torahiko Won First Prize In The Contest Held By Taiyo Sun Magazine With His Play Titled "The Matsuyama Family" Which Brought Him Into Prominence As A Promising Dramatist. His Fame Was Established When The Imperial Theatre Staged His Play Dojoji 1912. The Following Year He Left For Europe. At London Kori Met Esther Sainsbury The Poetess And They Remained Friends Till His Death. He Wrote Plays In London; His First Drama To Be Staged There Was "Kanawa" Iron Ring 1917. Another Of His Plays "Toils Of Yoshitomo" Ran For Three Weeks At The Little Theatre London. Other Plays Similarly Staged Were "Saul And David" And "Absalom." "The Toils Of Yoshitomo" Was Translated Into Several European Languages Including German French And Italian. He Was One Of The Few Japanese Writers Who Worked Abroad. Despite His Close Association With The Shirakaba School Kori In His Taste For Romantic And Decadent Literature Was At Odds With The Prevailing Shirakaba Partiality For Realist Literature Particularly That Of Tolstoy. In His Mature Prose Style Kori Also Turned Away From The Shirakaba Writers' Tendency To Sinewy Colloquialism And Airy Realism In Favour Of A More Flowery Convoluted Prose Style À La D'Annunzio Or Walter Pater. An Unattributed Evaluation States " In Japan One Lone Voice Persisted In Hailing The Greatness Of Kori Long After His Early Death. Mishima Yukio Saw In Kori'S Plays The Essence Of Tragedy. Mishima Rated Kori As The Natural Successor To Such Classic Japanese Tragedians As Zeami Chikamatsu And Mori Ogai. Mishima'S Modern Noh Plays Was Written In Implicit Homage To Kori And Stands Today As A Continuation Of Many Of The Themes That Kori Reworked So Successfully In His Dramas. Shiga Naoya Concluded His Reminiscence Of Kori With His Regret That He Had Let Kori Go To England. "Kori Should Have Stayed And Worked In Japan. If He Had He Might Not Have Died So Young.' Kori'S Early Death Was Undeniably Tragic But Given His Long History Of Sickness And The Fact That He Received The Best Medical Treatment Available At The Time His Premature Death Would Have Been Unavoidable Whether He Had Been In Japan Or Europe. Had Kori Never Left Japan He Might Now Be Known As A Renowned Writer Of The Shirakaba School But Because He Left For Europe And Britain We Have The Toils Of Yoshimoto Arguably The Greatest Dramatic Achievement By A Japanese Playwright ". <br/> <br/> Selwyn & Blount / Chapel River Press hardcover
1936039816London: Victor Gollancz 1936. First English Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/As New. 176 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Black. First English Language Edition Preceding And Incomparably Scarcer Than The Softcover "Left Book Club" Softcover Edition Also Published By Gollancz. First Major Novel About The German Concentration Camps By The Nobel Prize Honoree Andre Malraux Later French Minister Of Culture Which Is A Thing. Book Is Near Fine No Marks Clean Faint Signs Of Use. Dust Jacket Is As New One Of A Group Of Dust Jackets From The 1920'S And 1930'S Maintained Separately From The Book Not A Trace Of Fading Or Browning Not Price Clipped 6- Price On Spine No Creasing No Damage Of Any Kind; The Finest Surviving Dust Jacket For This Book. <br/> <br/> Victor Gollancz hardcover
1953056692New York: Doubleday / Bernard Chester Middleton 1953. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Color Plates And B/W Illustrations. 661 Pp. First Printing 1953 New York Stated. In A Deluxe Black Full Morocco Binding Gilt Red Morocco Spine Label Elaborate Gilt Turns Marbled Endpapers All Edges Gilt. Also With A Christmas Card From Dora And Bernard Middleton And His Calligraphic Note Apologizing For A Delay In Sending This Book. Per Wikipedia Bernard Chester Middleton Mbe 1924 - 2019 Was A Preeminent British Restoration Bookbinder. He Was Regarded As One Of The Foremost Book Craftsmen And Trade Historians Of Modern Times Lecturing And Teaching In Europe Belgium Switzerland And The Netherlands And The Americas Brazil The United States And Venezuela. He Authored Two Major Works A History Of English Craft Bookbinding Technique 1963 And The Restoration Of Leather Bindings 1972 Which Became Essential Reading For Professional Bookbinders Scholars And Collectors. In The Trade He Was Known As "The Great Man". He Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Arts In 1951 And In 1986 Was Awarded An Mbe For Services To Bookbinding. His Gold-Tooled Bindings May Be Seen In The British Library The Victoria And Albert Museum The Royal Library Windsor And The Wormsley Library And In Other Major Libraries Worldwide. <br/> <br/> Doubleday / Bernard Chester Middleton hardcover
19922110502150908642Tobacco Research Center 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 Tobacco Research Center paperback
11593Undated early 1850s. The two leaves were evidently disbound from a copy of an edition of Dryden's Plutarch in which the grey 4to leaf of writing paper following the 12mo printed leaf was one of those that interleaved the volume. In fair conditon on lightly-aged paper. The two leaves are tipped in onto a larger leaf removed from an album. The printed leaf is 12mo from volume 5 of Dryden's translation with the pages numbered 511 and 612 sic. The two sides of the leaf carry a total of approximately 25 emendations and deletions. Both sides of the 4to leaf carry longer interpolations by Clough those on the verso relating to a page not present. In pencil at foot of recto: 'A. H. Clough's corrections of proof' and on verso also in pencil 'MS Arthur Clough'. Clough began work on his revision of Dryden's translation in the early 1850s. Undated [early 1850s?] unknown
202338300Barcelona: Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 10 of 50 copies of the English edition of which twenty-two are numbered 1 to 22. There were three deluxe copies marked as A B and C; There were 25 copies numbered 26 to 50 for the Catalan edition. This is a powerful and ever relevant history of the development and evolution of the concept and adoption of the tenets of freedom of the press. "The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant. The texts of Condorcet 1776 and Bonald 1826 allow us to comprehend the debate that occurred in those times. Historian Albert Corbeto provides a background for the facts and contrasts them recounting from a neutral standpoint the historical events that had a substantial impact on French and European society. There are many parallels between the past and present controversies. In today's geopolitically volatile world there is a renewed and disturbing discussion about the nature and limits of various liberties including freedom of the press.The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant." Stanford University Library<br /> <br /> Albert Corbeto is a professor of Typography and Book History in the Postgraduate degree on Advanced Typography and Typographic creation in Design Degree. He is in charge of publishing and other cultural activities at the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona and also cooperates with the Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona. He has published several articles and monographs on Spanish typography as well as on other aspects of printing and book history. The illustrator Elies Plana is a Barcelona based book artist and printer who has been working in the field for the last 15 years. After studying fine arts at the art school of Olot he joined the workshop of his father Miquel Plana. He learned the craft and the different techniques by helping and assisting his father in the production of over 100 fine books. He not only learned the love for the books but also for the craftsmanship involved in every stage of producing them. In 2008 he started his own projects that vary from editions book prints and special commissions. He works with different techniques from linocuts and woodcut to etching and uses lead and wood types to print the texts<br /> <br /> Bound with marbled paper boards with brownish orange spine and cover edges. Title in black to spine and with a title lable affixed to the front cover. The book is printed ono Fredigoni paper at Gràfiques Marti. The text has been composed with the font families Linotype Didot and Adob Garamond. Housed in a slipcase covered with the same orange cloth as the book's spine which is in turn housed in a brown cardboard folder with brown fabric ties. It is in fine condition. Measures 8.8 x 13 inches. 160 numbered pages. ARTB/030226. Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona hardcover
19835597Derry: Field Day Theatre Company Limited 1983. First Edition. First Impression cloth issue one of 1000 copies. Octavo 23.75cm; greyish-white rexine cloth boards with titling and decorative elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii773pp. Signed by the author on the title page dated August 1993. Fine in a Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear along the upper edge. A sharp copy of Heaney's translation of Buile Suibhne a classic of medieval literature. "The story centres on the fate of Sweeney the king of Dal-Arie in Ulster who was cursed by a saint turned into a bird and driven astray for years until the curse was fulfilled by his death" from front flap. Brandes & Durkan A34.a. Field Day Theatre Company Limited unknown
17871411730Germantaun Germantown: Michael Billmeyer 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 537 5 pages. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding with paneled spine; metal clasps to fore edge. Boards show moderate scuffing with rubbing along edges and cracking along joints. Small areas of exposed board at fore corners. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Cracking to leather of clasps. Text block is darkly age toned and moderately worn and soiled along edges. Age toning and foxing throughout with scattered stains. Contemporary ink doodles on front and rear endpapers; small areas of chipping along fore edge of front flyleaf. Splitting to hinges. Some sparse small dog-ear creases present in top corners. Shelved in Room F. 1411730. Special Collections - Upstairs. Michael Billmeyer hardcover
1947149033Great Britain: Penguin Books 1947. First Penguin Classics edition of the thrilling trilogy about the fate of the royal family Thebes. 16mo original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpaper: Raymond Chandler 6005 Camino de la Costa La Jolla California OCT 13 1949. Raymond Chandler was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American literature renowned for his contributions to the hardboiled crime genre. His work particularly through the chronicles of private detective Philip Marlowe provided a nuanced examination of moral ambiguity societal corruption and the complexities of justice. Chandler’s novels including The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely explored themes of class power and alienation while also engaging with the conventions of noir fiction. Marked by its economy of language and careful attention to atmosphere his writing elevated the detective genre merging literary qualities with the structural elements of crime fiction. His literary legacy remains central to ongoing academic discourse in the fields of literature cultural studies and criminology. Chandler moved to California in the 1920s eventually settling in La Jolla a coastal community in San Diego County. His time in California particularly in La Jolla had a significant influence on his writing. The stark contrast between the region’s natural beauty and the social complexities of its urban centers shaped the settings and themes in his works. Previous owner signature along with Raymond Chandler's signature. Near fine with light bumping and toning to the extremities. The Theban Plays by Sophocles is a trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies that centers on the tumultuous fate of the royal family of Thebes. Comprising Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone the plays examine themes of fate moral responsibility familial loyalty and the limits of human agency. Oedipus Rex tells the story of Oedipus the king who unwittingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother leading to his tragic downfall. In Oedipus at Colonus the exiled Oedipus seeks redemption at the end of his life while Antigone focuses on Oedipus's daughter who defies the king's decree to honor her brother with a proper burial. Through these works Sophocles explores the conflict between personal duty and state law as well as the inevitability of fate contributing to the enduring legacy of Greek tragedy and the exploration of human nature. Penguin Books unknown
1930L3 box769 a222v<p>Plato In Twelve Volumes Volumes 5 and 6: The Republic In Two Volumes Volumes 1 and 2 Books I-X. Loeb Classical Library Nos. 237 and 276. With an English Translation by Paul Shorey. Volume 1 First printed 1930; Revised and reprinted 1937; Reprinted 1943 . 1982; Volume 2 First printed 1935; Reprinted 1942 . 1987 Harvard University Press William Heinemann Ltd. Hardcover complete two volumes total 1222 pp: 600 pp Volume 1 622 pp Volume 2.</p> Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover
1971452j2125New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover. 003072550X . "A passionate cry to Christians to examine their conscience in regard to the long history of hatred and contempt for God's chosen people" - dust jacket. "No man was more influential than the author in preparing the way for the declaration on the Church and the Jewish people adopted at The Second Vatican Council." - Archbishop de Provencheres. Jules Isaac 1877-1963 was a Jewish French historian who lost his wife and daughter during WWII. Text in English. Translated from the 1959 French first edition. xxiv 405 p. Book in excellent condition clean bright and tight with very light wear. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. A high-quality example. ; 8vo . Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
1930005238Paris Jacques Bernard La Centaine 1930 In-12 Broché Edition originale
1975130421975 Paris, Jean-Paul Rouillon, 1975. 1 vol. in-folio (380 x 287 mm) en feuilles sous couverture rempliée avec titre "EVANGILE" gaufré sur le plat supérieur, boîte à châsse éditeur noir avec impression en blanc d'"Evangile" au dos et de "Jean" au plat supérieur. de 109 pp. - (1) f. (justificatif).Etat neuf.
195331676Paris, Gallimard, NRF, " La Croix du Sud ", Octobre 1953. Un volume, in-12, broché, non coupé. 250 pp.
Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1948. In-12, broché, couverture imprimée en deux tons (noir et rouge), 388 pp-2 ff. dont 14 pages de la préface de Raymond Queneau. Édition originale française du deuxième roman de Faulkner dans une traduction non signée due à Pierre Dumayet, avec une préface inédite de Raymond Queneau. Tirage à 1.200 exemplaires dont 50 sur vélin supérieur et 150 sur Alfa mousse des Papeteries Navarre. Il a été tiré en outre pour le compte des amis des éditions de Minuit 1000 ex sur Alfa. Très bel exemplaire un des 150 ex numérotés sur Alfa mousse. C'est le récit, jour après jour, des mésaventures des passagers d'un bâteau de croisière.
