POE (Edgar); BAUDELAIRE (Charles); FALKÉ (Pierre)Livre Rare Book
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17442Paris, éditions René Kieffer, 1921. In-4, 34 pp., broché, couverture originale illustrée (légère insolation, planche de l'aquarelle originale roussie).
PHO-2268Paris, chez Lenormant, Gagliana, Laloy, 1812. 2 volumes in-8 (21x13cm), 3ff.-lii-455pp., 2ff.-511pp.-1f., demi veau époque, titre et tomaison au dos, manque à la coiffe(T1), petits frottements, quelques rousseurs.
176940495London: Beckett. Good with no dust jacket. 1769 1772. Leather. Small 8vo; xxx350 386 viii400 400 416pp pages; This set includes First editions of the last three volumes of which two are miiprinted MCCCLXIV with the revised and corrected second editions of the first two volumes together in a uniform and attractive tree calf binding. Wood cut print device on title page. Front cover of Volume 1 detached but present otherwise hinges are OK. Spines tooled in compartments. Apparent misprint of Mccclxxii instead of Mdcclxxii on two tital pages. Bonnell Thornton translater into blank verse. Contents clean and firm. . Beckett hardcover
40006The Burton Club Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Private Edition. 16 volume set 8vo. The first ten volumes comprise "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments." These volumes are black cloth boards with gold-embossed titles along their spines front and back covers. The last six volumes comprise "Supplemental Nights: To the Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory." Black cloth boards with silver-embossed titles. No DJs. Minor shelfwear to all 16 volumes: light scuffing along edges and covers. Previous owner's bookplates pasted on front free endpapers of all 16 volumes. Some light tanning along page edges. Otherwise tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volumes are in Very Good condition. The Burton Club Hardcover
1882508566J. Dumaine 1882. Etat Correct. in8. 1882. Broché. 20 livraisons en 20 volumes . Présence de tampons étiquettes et pages de bibliothèque militaire Reliure abimée Dos abimé L'intérieur est plutot bien conservé. Bord des pages bruni J. Dumaine unknown
1882508566J. Dumaine 1882 in8. 1882. Broché. 20 livraisons en 20 volumes . Présence de tampons étiquettes et pages de bibliothèque militaire Reliure abimée Dos abimé L'intérieur est plutot bien conservé. Bord des pages bruni
19882090202120413917string instrument duo 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 string instrument duo paperback
19772091502135707541Kodansha 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kodansha paperback
20092091502135709557Toyo shorin 2009. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Toyo shorin paperback
40504Paris Chez Couturier, Imprimeur-Libraire. Et chez l'Auteur 1787 in 8 (20,5x13) Les 12 tomes reliés en 6 volumes reliures plein veau havane de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de filets et de fleurons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de cuir marron, portrait de Gustave III gravé en frontipice, VIII et 230 pages; [1]; IV et 295 pages; 286 pages; 214 pages; 262 pages;. 207 pages; 256 pages; 269 pages [1]; 253 pages; 260 pages; 254 pages; 258 pages [1], petit cachet ex-libris de M. le Marquis de Rochemore. Traduction en français par Cornélie-Pétronille-Bénédicte Wouters, dite baronne de Vassé, et sa soeur Marie Wouters. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
40117Paris Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Editeurs 1856 in 12 (18,5x12) 1 volume reliure demi basane fauve, dos à nerfs soulignés de filets dorés et de filets à froid, XXXI et 330 pages et 1 feuillet non chiffré de table des matières, petite trace claire dans l'angle de la marge supérieure de la page de titre. Edition originale de la traduction française par Charles Baudelaire. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
awd-1189Collage original signé au crayon en marge Claude Pélieu-Washburn. Un coucher de soleil onirico-publicitaire avec apparitions de croissants de lune dans un ciel de traine. Bel encadrement noir (20,5/27 cm).
056627Paris Typographie de Ambroise Firmin-Didot 1868-1879 1868 in 8 (22,5x15) 3 forts volumes reliures demi chagrin vert de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de caissons à froid (dos uniformément fanés), lettres JR dorées au en queue. Tome 1: CLXXXIVet 586 pages, avec une grande carte dépliante en couleurs et une planche gravée hors-texte (1868-1872). Tome 2: 716 pages (1873-1877). Tome 3: 718 pages et 4 cartes en couleurs in fine, et une table des matières des volumes (1877-1879). Edition bilingue: texte en grec avec en regard la traduction française établie par Ambroise Firmin Didot . Seconde édition bien complète en 3 volumes. Ensemble en bon état et exempt de rousseurs
1950035756London: Basil Blackwell 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Xii 119 Pp. With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth Gilt. First Edition In English With German And English Text On Facing Pages. Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners Gilt Brilliant Tiny Owner's Signature Philosopher Irwin Chester Lieb At Center Of Front Free Endpaper With Some Infrequent Pencil Emphasis Marks And At Least One Extended Marginalia And At Least One Double Emphasis Mark In Ink. Dj Unlaminated And Slightly Taller Than The Book Is Very Good With Very Slight Browning To Spine A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks 1/8" Chipping To Part Of Top Of Spine And At Upper Front Tip. Ernest Chester Lieb Chet Lieb Died In Pasadena On May 23 1992 After A Long Illness But Just Before His Magnum Opus Past Present And Future: A Philosophical Study Of Time Was Published. From Princeton He Went On To Cornell For An M.A. Followed By A Year In N.Y.C. Advertising. However Academia Kept Calling And Lie Went On To Yale For His Ph.D. And To Teach There And At Connecticut College Before Joining The Philosophy Department At The Univ. Of Texas In 1963 As Professor And Administrator. He Was Instrumental In Establishing The Press As Well As Serving As Dean Of Graduate Studies. In 1981 He Moved On To The Univ. Of Southern California As Provost. Subsequently He Served As Dean And V.P. As Well As Professor Of Philosophy. He Served On Many National Panels And Committees Including The American Council Of Learned Societies The National Endowment For The Humanities And The Assn. Of American Universities. He Authored Four Books And Innumerable Scholarly Papers. He Was A U.S. Navy Pilot During Wwii And Held A Commercial Pilot's License. In 1983 He And A Colleague Traveled To Russia To Facilitate The Travel Of Seven Prominent Soviet Scientist "Refuseniks" Coming To This Country As Visiting Scholars. <br/> <br/> Basil Blackwell hardcover
1931059785New York: W W Norton 1931. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 114 Pp. 2 Pp Index At Rear. Brown Rough Cloth With Yellow Paper Labels On Spine And Front Cover Printed In Green And Black. Fine No Rubbing To Labels. Dust Jacket Priced $2.00 Wear Browning Small Losses At Corners. <br/> <br/> W W Norton hardcover
161430971614 Mise en François de l'Italien du Seigneur Matthieu-Marie Bayard, Comte de Scandian par M. Jacques Vincent. Dernière édition revue & diligemment expurgée des fautes qui sont passées aux précédentes impressions. Léon Savine, Lyon, 1614. Un volume in-8 pleine reliure pastiche, veau glacé, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, plats à encadrement de filets, fleurons en coins, dentelles intérieures, tranches dorées, [1f.] blanc, page de titre, [11ff.] de table, 328 pages, [1f.] blanc.Une mouillure très claire en tête des premiers feuillets, bel exemplaire néanmoins.
1939049483New York City Ny: Walden Publications 1939. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Risque Graphic Novel. Yellow Cloth Lettered In Black. First And Only Printing. Near Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $1.49 Dusty Worn Tears At Corners With Minute Losses. Inscribed From The Translator To Social Artist And Fellow John Reed Club Member William Gropper "For Gropper May This Help Put Those Buggers In Their Place! Keene Wallis." Marcel Arnac Whose Real Name Was Marcel Fernand Louis Bodereau 1886-1931 Was A Writer Illustrator And Humorist One Of The Precursors Of Comics In The Form Of Graphic Novels . He Contributed To Numerous Newspapers 1903- And There Are Translations Into German And English Such As Private Memoirs Of A Profiter. He Also Had A Career As An Advertising Designer And Is The Screenwriter Of Three Short Films In The Series Directed By Georges Monca Whose Hero Is The Comic Character Of Rigadin Embodied On The Screen By Charles Prince . He Died On August 24 1931 Killed By A Shard Of Cast Iron Which Fell On His House Following The Explosion Of The Suresnes Water Lifting Plant. Keene Wallis Was An Author And A Prolific Translator From The French Primarily Of Poetry And Literature Related To Sexuality And Eroticism. In October 1929 The John Reed Club Was Founded By Eight Staff Members Of The New Masses Magazine To Support Leftist And Marxist Artists And Writers. They Included: Mike Gold Walt Carmon William Gropper Keene Wallis Hugo Gellert Morris Pass And Joseph Pass. The John Reed Clubs 1929-1935 Often Referred To As John Reed Club Or Jrc Were An American Federation Of Local Organizations Targeted Towards Marxist Writers Artists And Intellectuals Named After The American Journalist And Activist John Reed. According To Alan M. Wald The John Reed Clubs Were Not Founded By The Communist Party. New Masses Managing Editor Walt Carmon Became Frustrated With A Group Of Young Writers Who Were Hanging Out In The Office And Getting In His Way. He Told Them To "Go Out And Form A Club" And "Call It The John Reed Club." The John Reed Clubs Would Be A Constant Source Of Drama Within The New Masses Family And Members Of The Clubs Would Eventually Found The Partisan Review Which Became A Main Competitor To The New Masses. Businessmen Are Easy Targets For The People Who Never Operate Their Own Business; But The Great Mass Of War Profiteers Are Actually The Morons Usually Lawyers Who Go Into Politics And Mindlessly Support Wars Rather Than Find More Constructive Work To Do Let Alone Trying To Solve The Real Issues That Were Critical To The Start Of The Hostilities. <br/> <br/> Walden Publications hardcover
1903045636Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Xxxvi 137 Pp. Red Boards With Paper Spine Label. #353 Of A Limited Edition Of 425 Copies. First Printing. This Copy One Of The Author's Copies Signed By Bruce Rogers At Top Of Front Free Endpaper With The Author's Inscription Below: "To Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor In Grateful Remembrance Of True Kindness True Friendship True Love Of The Poets / His Fellow-Translator / Curtis Hidden Page / December 1909 / This Book Begun At Gilmanton In New Hampshire In The Summer Of 1902 And Finished In New York In The Following Winter." Small Private Library Section Label At Top Of Front Pastedown. Signed In Full By Page Beneath His Poem On P. Vii And With An Eight Line Poem Hand Written And Initialed By Page On P. 1. Extra Spine Label Tipped On To Rear Endpaper Fine. Also With Another Copy Number 340 In Slipcase Numbered 340 Less Used But Spine More Browned Also With A New Extra Spine Label At Rear. Rogers Reportedly Considered This As Favorite Amongst All The Books He Designed. <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin & Company hardcover
19527191New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work first published in English in Japan by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921 published in literary magazines. The first two stories "In A Grove" and "Rashomon" served as the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's masterful film adaptation which opened the world of Japanese cinema to the West and introduced Toshiro Mifune to viewers on a mass scale. As a testament to its significance and staying power the collection along with several other stories was re-issued by Penguin Books in 2006 with an entirely new translation by Jay Rubin and a lengthy introduction by Haruki Murakami. Criterion 138. Octavo 21cm; teal cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 45-1199pp with frontispiece and 6 plates of illustrations by M. Kuwata. Some offsetting to endpapers from old paper-backed mylar else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket shows a few pinpoint rubbed spots mild offsetting on verso with a closed tear and thin attendant stain at lower rear panel; Near Fine. Liveright Publishing Corporation unknown
18531409953Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1853. First American Edition. Hardcover. Folio viii 13-100 pages plus 12 engraved plates. In Good condition. In full brown cloth binding with gilt titling to front cover sympathetically with modern cloth and new endpapers; paper label with black lettering to spine. Boards show moderate wear and soiling with scuffs and stains to covers. Rubbing and chipping to all edges and at fore corners with sections of exposed board. Text block shows Moderate wear soiling and toning along edges. Age toned and heavily foxed throughout with faint smudging. Heavy age toning to plates. Bottom corner of half title page has been torn away with archival repair. Shelved in Room F Oversize.<br /> <br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1409953. Special Collections. Blanchard and Lea hardcover
19708587New York & Barnstable MA: Farrar Straus & Giroux / Crane Duplicating Service Inc 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; photomechanically reproduced sheets comb-bound into light blue printed covers with publisher's typed label tape to lower front cover; xvi1-802pp. Signed by James Wright in black pen at upper margin of the preliminary leaf. Subtle toning to cover extremities with some very faint foxing to text edges and upper margins; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Proof copy of this collection wherein Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright has selected and translated 31 poems by Hermann Hesse all dealing with the single theme of homesickness. In his "Translator's Note" Wright says: "I suppose the word like love is simple enough at first glance. If somebody else is in love love looks charmingly silly. If somebody else is homesick we chuckle. The poor fellow hasn't grown up.That is what I think Hesse's poetry is about. He is homesick. But what is home I do not know the answer but I cherish Hesse because he at least knew how to ask the question." The proof state of the text is uncommon particularly signed; during this period Crane typically produced no more than a dozen or so copies. 8587. Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc unknown
20078086New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2007. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; purple and pink paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x2-1913pp. Signed by the author on a tipped-in preliminary leaf above his name and chop rubber-stamped in blue in. Tiny tear to upper front joint else very Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $22.95. The Japanese author's eleventh novel originally published in Japan in 2004 under the title Afuta Daku. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
193584758London: Chatto & Windus 1935. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorative element stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 314pp; photographic halftone frontispiece. Light sunning and rubbing to board edges with dampstains to spine ends and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net tanned with shelf-soil foxing chip to upper spine panel effect to title 1" tear to lower rear spine fold tiny chips and tears to extremities and tape mends to verso; Good. First published as Der Karren Traven's novel includes romance and is set in the tropics of Central America. 84758. Chatto & Windus unknown
20042083002115708811Iwanamishoten 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 223p Size: 31cm Number of books: 1 Iwanamishoten paperback
19412080502106908992Not Available 1941. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
