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1935059996London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford 1935. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Vii 327 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt Top Edge Gilt Foredge Deckled. The 28Th English Rendering Of The Odyssey First Published In A Limited Edition In Great Britain By Emery Walker And In A Limited Edition In The Us Both In 1932 This Is The First Uk Trade Edition 1935 Stated Lacking The Map Endpapers And Introduction By Findlay Present In The American Issue. Book Is Fine Bright Clean No Wear Or Marks. Dj Is Bright Clean Very Slight Spine Fading And Browning Shallow Chipping Across Top Of Spine 1/2" X 3/16" Triangular Chip At Center Of Bottom Edge Of Rear Panel 3/4" To 2' Closed Tears At Corners Of Front Panel Each With Internal Clear Tape Repairs. <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford hardcover
1612V75588London: George Eld 1612. Softcover. Good. text woodcut foliated initial letters and headpieces. . sm.4to contemporary vellum blind ruled First 4 Leaves in Facsimile 135pp 134-189pp 183-190pp 1 170pp 30pp Some foxing and a few corner stains and damp staining towards the end of Part 2 while THE TROPHEIS sic has darker staining for 11 leaeves which becomes quite light to the end.The pages are well attached and without signs of handling.A translation of: Histoire de la mort de plorable de Henry IIII. With the inclusion of "A panegyre: containing the life and heroyck deeds of the most Christian King Henry the fourth" this is a caption title of a translation by Josuah Sylvester from an unknown source and it with a new pagination but a continuous signature. It also contains "The Tropheis of the life and trag die of the death of . Henry the Great . Translated . by Ios. Syl."=Josuah Sylvester in verse. [ George Eld] paperback
19196269BB2 Bände. Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1919. Mit Illustrationen von Moreau Le Jeune nach alten Vorlagen. Orig.-Pergamentbande mit reicher Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung sowie Kopfgoldschnitt.
4527A Paris, chez Chaillou-Potrelle, Jules Renouard, Firmin Didot Frères, 1829. Un volume in-folio demi toile brune, plats cartonnés, titre doré, [1f.], [titre], 12+8+13 pp., 40 planches gravées. Légères rousseurs.
1936972H43London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited; Faber and Faber Ltd; William Heinemann Ltd; Andre Deutsch; G. Bell and Sons Ltd; Michael Joseph 1936-1963. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Various. A six-volume collection of mid-century British cookery and domestic works with four first editions and original dust wrappers reflecting evolving home tastes from the 1930s to 1960s. In the publisher's original cloth bindings complete with the original dust wrappers.Three dust wrappers are unclipped.Four of these volumes are the first editions. This is a six-volume collection of works that reflect the evolving tastes and needs of home cooks from the 1930s to the 1960s with contributions from notable food writers of the period consisting of:Round the World with an Appetite by Molly Castle 1936 This volume is a first edition. This copy is a lively and anecdotal culinary travelogue exploring global cuisine through a British lens. Choose Your Kitchen by Adie Ballantyne 1944 This volume is a first edition illustrated with two monochrome photographic plates. collated and complete. This is a practical guide to designing and equipping an efficient wartime kitchen. Cooking for One by Marjorie Baron Russell 1946 This volume is a first edition. This volume is a compact and practical cookbook offering simple economical meals tailored for solo households. Hungarian Cooking by Elisabeth de Biro edited by Katalin Frank 1952. This volume is the second edition offering an accessible introduction to traditional Hungarian cuisine translated and adapted for English-speaking cooks. Home Baking Recipe Book by Ivan Baker 1957. This is a comprehensive and reliable collection of baking recipes for the home cook.The Plain Man"s Guide to Wine by Raymond Postgate 1963. This volume is the eleventh impression revised and brought up to date in December 1963; includes a frontispiece map of the Bordeaux wine area. This is a clear and practical guide to understanding and enjoying wine. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally generally very smart. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Small bookseller"s label to front paste down of "Choose". Previous owner"s small inscription to front paste down of "Cooking for One" to front free endpaper of "Choose". Slight offsetting with the odd spot to endpapers. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Dust wrappers generally smart. Dust wrapper of "Plain Man"s Guide" "Choose Your Kitchen" and "Around the World" clipped. Tape reinforcements to extremities of "Home Baking" with spine faded and rings of damp staining to rear wrap chipping and tearing heavier to this wrap. The odd small chip and closed tear more so to older copies. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Slight age toning one or two spots and handling marks heavier to fore edges and first and last few leaves of older copies. Very Good Indeed Hodder and Stoughton Limited; Faber and Faber Ltd; William Heinemann Ltd; Andre Deutsch; G. Bell and Sons Ltd; Michael Joseph hardcover
19762080202102502031Shinkosho Co. Ltd. Minto 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shinkosho Co., Ltd. Minto paperback
1961F3100-BBookman Associates New York 1961 New York 1961. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a very good jacket. Jacket has some wear to extremities and on foot of spine. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap $5.00. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bookman Associates, New York hardcover
198623101006Panjandrum Books 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New. Hardcover without Dust Jacket as issued. First Printing. SIGNED and NUMBERED EDITION OF 25 COPIES. This is copy #6. Includes an original collage on stiff paper by the author originally tipped in now loose and laid in. Bound in maroon cloth boards with hand screened limitation information and applied full color illustration. With title information to spine in gold. 130 pages. With original French and English translation on facing pages. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears creases bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. <br/> <br/> Panjandrum Books hardcover
19533117103London: Peter Nevill. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First English language edition. INSCRIBED and dated in 2005 by the translator Annette Michelson on title page. Ms. Michelson's signure is initialed Fine in fine dust jacket. 128pp. 6" X 8 3/4" Inscribed to the noted art archivist and editor Robert Dean. Annette Michelson was a prolific translator art critic and film historian. She also co-founded the literary quarterly October. A notable association copy. ; 6" x 8 3/4"; 128 pages . Peter Nevill hardcover
19603114952London: Collins Harvill. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First British and first English language edition. About fine in near fine dust jacket. Faint shelf-wear to jacket Basis for Luchino Visconti's magnificent film adaptation. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages . Collins Harvill. hardcover
196818094New York: Harper & Row 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 goldenrod paper over boards quarterbound in rust-colored cloth with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 170pp. Lower corners gently tapped though still perfectly sharp with a few faint tiny stains to lower edge of text; Near Fine. Dustjacket is the first issue with the author's photo credited to Jerry Bauer on rear panel; bright unclipped and virtually unrubbed with a single tiny nick to upper edge of front panel - very Near Fine. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first book translated into English collecting a novella and eight short stories. Basis for the 1999 Arturo Ripstein film El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba starring Fernando Lujan and Salma Hayek. KLEIN E1.a.1. Harper & Row unknown books
193948108New York: Nikola Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Elephant Folio 15 7/8 x 13". Original light brown half cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards with black-border gray lettering creating the effect of thre-dimensionality. Cover illustration by Attila Gremigni. Photogravure by Oreste Cuppini. With portrait of Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and bust of Mussolini at front.<br /> <br /> Italian title published in America to impress and stir the interest among Americans for the Fascist program in Italy.<br /> <br /> De Glauco in his preface suggest that the object of this publication is to make Italy known to the world through pictorial representation assuming that it will make Italians proud while foreigners indoctrinated by anti-Italian propaganda will feel regret in view of his prejudice. The object of this book is to make known some of the accomplishments of the Fascist Regime. The books is profusely illustrated with spectacular b/w photographs and full page photogravures in slightly changing tones. <br /> <br /> The first chapter depicts W.W.I. as a great victory for Italy and illustrates Mussolini's participation and experience during the war leading into the "red days" with anti-Italians fleeing the advance of the fascists during the March on Rome. A depiction in photogravure of tall fuming smokestacks in light burgundy color is headlined "This is the war which we prefer" – Mussolini. The forceful "blood and soil" propaganda tone is reflected throughout the publication as it is in the second photogravure reproduced in the same color tone "When the soil is fertile the people are happy." – Mussolini opening the extended chapter on Italian agriculture.<br /> <br /> The following chapters treat motherhood and childhood including subchapters on young Fascists sports in Italy housing and medical issues an extensive chapter on aviation the Italian Navy roads and bridges aqueducts railroads low-cost housing Rome and other major Italian cities as well as provinces including Italian Libya. The final chapter deals with the Italian Empire and its definition: A Will to Power Capable of Surmounting all obstacles with subchapters on Autarchy and the Duce. The final sixty pages contain advertisements and introductions of entrepreneurs. <br /> <br /> Text in Italian. Binding with some wear along edges some scuffing along edges and light scuffs on cover. Back cover with some soiling and one inch of cloth binding loose at top of spine but present not damaged. Binding rubbed. Front free endpaper with vertical crease but not damaged except for minor chip at top right corner. Endpapers with very light aerial foxing. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Nikola Press hardcover
1896012478London/ Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo light green cloth boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more and gilt to spine. Brangwyn's full page illustrations are in duotone but the real graphic wallop is in the cover design and extra title page design which we suspect is attributable to an artist whom we cannot identify other than Brangwyn. A wonderful period piece. A collectible set - no names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott unknown books
19813117074Franklin Center: Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Leather Binding. Limited in the series The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. Fine in brown leather binding with gilt edges & satin marker ribbon without dust jacket as issued. 434pp. 6 1/2" X 9" Sharp copy. ; 6 1/2" x 9"; 434 pages . Franklin Library hardcover
19714537New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1971. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; brown paper and cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and embossed to front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; viii34-1155pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $4.95 with some trivial wear and a small semi-circular stain at crown visible only on verso. <br /> <br /> Second novel and first in English by the French Nobel Prize-winner set during the occupation of Paris during World War II. "It's hero is a double agent working for both the "Gestapo" the Paris police and the "Resistance" an underworld gang" from front flap. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
197429Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1974. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. First Edition. Deluxe Issue one of six copies specially bound and designated for use by the author and members within the inner circle of the press this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Mrabet and Bowles on the colophon. Octavo 24.25cm; pictorial paper-covered boards and maroon velvet backstrip with title label mounted to spine; endpapers are shocking pink; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 89-1233pp. While not called for this copy is housed in a matching velvet slipcase produced by the Earle Gray Bindery. Fine in Fine dustjacket and slipcase. Mrabet's third novel following the success of Love with a Few Hairs 1967 and The Lemon 1969. Black Sparrow unknown
16-4224Santiago de Chile Ediciones Ercilla 1939.9 . 8vo. Original wraps. 422.pp.OCLC Number: 894315765. ColeccioÌn ContemporaÌneosVery rare only a digital version in OCLC. Possibly the only Spanish language edition. .Provenance: Natanson estate.Découvrez Léon Blum 1872-1950 grâce au choix de documents effectué par Gallica : des articles de la presse de l'époque du Front populaire "L’Homme libre" "Le Populaire" "Regards" l'ouvrage de Léon Blum sur les congrès ouvriers et socialistes l'une de ses critiques littéraires parues dans "La Revue blanche" ou encore une photo de lui au Congrès socialiste de 1925. Les Sélections "Politique" proposent des titres fondamentaux de la pensée politique dont ceux de Blum. Les Sélections "L'entre-deux-guerres par l'image" proposent de nombreuses représentations de personnages ou d’événements de cette époque notamment de Blum et du Front populaire. Thadée Natanson 1868-1951 was the co-founder in 1889 of La Revue blanche with his brother. He married the famous muse Misia Godebska in 1893.Thadée Natanson né à Varsovie en 1868 est issu d'une riche famille polonaise émigrée à Paris. Avec ses deux frères Alexandre et Louis-Alfred et leurs camarades du lycée Condorcet il fonde en 1889 une revue entièrement dédiée à la poésie La Revue Blanche. Il épouse Misia Godebska en 1893 laquelle devient rapidement la "Reine de Paris". Le couple reçoit des personnalités du monde artistique et littéraire de la Belle Époque notamment Stéphane Mallarmé Félix Vallotton Toulouse-Lautrec Octave Mirbeau ou encore Marcel Proust. Son engagement en faveur d'Alfred Dreyfus lui fait perdre de nombreux soutiens et La Revue Blanche fait faillite peu de temps après son divorce avec Misia en 1905. Natanson se tourne alors vers les affaires et l'industrie jusqu'à sa mort en 1951 à Paris. Expertise by Jean Lequoy Librairie Giraud-Badin 22 rue Guynemer 75006 Paris TeÌl. 01 45 48 30 58 Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Ercilla, 1939.9 paperback
199526London: Faber & Faber 1995. First Edition. New. First Printing of Pamuk's second novel. The book is Fine with barely a trace of the usual darkening to the paper on the top edge. The jacket is also Fine with the original price of UK 14.99 net unclipped. It bears some pretty simplistic yet strikingly different artwork than that of the American edition published by FSG a year earlier. There is an imperceptible trace of lightening to the red on the spine. This copy has been signed boldly in black by Pamuk the first Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize. A mystery novel set in Istanbul involving an amateur sleuth missing persons and investigative journalists. Considerably less common than the American edition. Faber & Faber unknown
19303496New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1930. First Revised American Trade Edition. A handsome edition of the Rubaiyat exquisitely illustrated by Willy Pogany with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Small quarto 25.75cm; full tan cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover and black and gold illustrated label mounted to front cover; top edge gilt; dustjacket; publisher's original decorative box; 1715pp; with frontispiece and 11 tipped-in color plates and 46 black and gold mounted illustrations by Pogany throughout the text. A fresh Fine copy with preliminary and terminal leaves uncut. Dustjacket has a nearly invisible razor-thin cut at upper rear panel else Near Fine without wear or fading. Publisher's box shows some trivial wear and dustiness to extremities with lower half showing a corresponding razor-thin cut on verso; still quite sound and very well preserved. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
PSP31Strasbourg - Paris: BIBLIOTHEQUE D'EDUCATION ET DE RECREATION - J. HETZEL Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Gilt decorated buckram boards. Gilt decorated leather spine. All gilt edges. 4to. With coper-plate engraved illustrations and frontispiece. BIBLIOTHEQUE D'EDUCATION ET DE RECREATION - J. HETZEL Hardcover
2006066320England: The Folio Society 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1430 pages 4to. Includes black clamshell box and pamphlet What is War and Peace Limited Edition of 1750 numbered copies. This is copy 809. Bound by Real Lachenmaier Germany in full wassa goatskin blocked with a design by Jeff Clements. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Fine condition. The Folio Society Hardcover
192785102New York: The Grolier Club 1927. Limited Edition. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto 32cm; quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii2084pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear to spine panel 2" front upper spine fold and creases and tears to extremities; Good. In publisher's slipcase lacking upper board edge with hinge crack to lower board; Good. Troy's Champfleury focuses on French language including the alphabet and grammar with illustrations throughout. 85102. The Grolier Club unknown
2006066321England: The Folio Society 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 448 pages 4to. Includes brown clamshell box. Limited Edition of 1750 numbered copies. This is copy 278. Bound in Lachenmaier Germany in full orange wassa goatskin blocked with a design by Jeff Clements. Tight binding no marks. Some fading along the top edge of the clamshell box. Volume is in Fine condition. Clamshell box is in Near Fine condition. The Folio Society Hardcover
180120410<p>This volume is TEXT ONLY</p> J. Bone hardcover
193249425Berlin: Rowohlt 1932. First German edition. Softcover. Good condition. Octavo. 556pp. Original stiff tan wraps with gray lettering on cover and spine in original dustjacket including mylar protection with gray and red lettering on spine. and Look Homeward Angel! was Thomas Wolfe's first novel published in 1929. It is the story of Eugene Gant protagonist of the novel and believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself is set in a fictionalized version of his hometown Asheville North Carolina. This copy was sent by Rowohlt to the editorial staff of the Express-Information in Innsbruck as a review copy documented by a laid in postcard requesting two copies of the review in return. Also laid in a six page Rowohlt order form with descriptive text on the novel and excerpts of newspaper reviews. Rare with dustjacket. Text in German. Dustjacket and mylar with light wear along edges small chips along spine and top back cover. Dustjacket and interior lightly age-toned. Rowohlt unknown
