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19611336463n.p.: n.publ 1961. Hardcover. 10mo; G/G-; pp 494; beige spine with black and red text; first edition; dust jacket has some modest shelf wear to exterior; few chips to edges; cloth has slightly sunned spine; sturdy boards; text block edges have slight toning to exterior; mild shadow toning to endpapers; partial cracking to front hinge at ffeps; tight binding; illustrated with some Chinese text. 1336463. FP New Rockville Stock. n.publ hardcover books
2001259172Merrick NY: Cross-Cultural Communications 2001. Paperback. 124p. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Cross-Cultural Communications paperback books
1980190333Budapest: Corvina Kiadó 1980. Hardcover. 565p. plates prologue bibliography b&w plates from photos at rear text in Spanish very good first Spanish language edition in cloth and unclipped dj. General history of Latin America by the foremost expert in Hungary. Corvina Kiadó hardcover books
198852963New York: Summit Books 1988. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.70. Octavo 24cm; navy blue with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and front cover; publisher's original matching cloth slipcase; ii1011-217pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Holocaust novel by the Romanian-born Nobel Laureate first published as Le Crépuscule au Loin in 1987. Summit Books unknown books
192620168Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. Rogers Bruce. 115 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Printed in red and black with typography by Bruce Rogers. A vivid glimpse of life in the ninth century; a hitherto scarcely known piece of mediaeval literature. ROGERS 285. Harvard Univ. Press hardcover 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
196645588Cambridge MA: The M.I.T. Press 1966. First Edition. Octavo 24cm; purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi3884pp. Light wear to extremities else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped lightly shelfworn with some scattered foxing and dustiness several short tears and a small loss at lower front flap fold. "Never before published in any Western language except in fragments this classical work of Chinese mysticism is a fundamental - and fascinating - source for the study of Taoism "Deism" as belief and as practice" from front flap. The M.I.T. Press unknown books
1978161854Berkeley: Self-Published 1978. Paperback. vii 100p. b&w photos tables and two line maps; text in Spanish. Title page bears a florid gift inscription an else very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. A guide and history of the region and the railway line that services it. Self-Published paperback books
198046266Garden City: Doubleday 1980. First American Edition. Quarto 28.5.cm; yellow/pictorial paper-covered boards in yellow/pictorial dust jacket with identical image and titling 32pp. Text block is clear and sound with only very light handling wear Fine. Boards slightly worn on edge corners including those on the spine hinge; soiling on rear board inner margin. Dust jacket has overall yellowing surface wear and minor soiling. Closed tears present on jacket extremities with chipping and material loss along the front panel's upper margin and spine. Sticker on front inner flap. Else Very Good. A charming story of the unlikely friendship between a pig a bird and a fish depicted through Waechter's color illustrations. English language version of the German "Wir können noch viel zusammen machen" 1973. Doubleday 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
19141321901Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1914. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 181; Good; 3/4 bound black spine with gilt text; no jacket; marbled boards; exterior shows modest wear to panels; strong intact boards; text block show slight foxing to exterior edges; previous owner's name to title page; some foxing to front pastedown; interior lightly toned; illustrated; German text;. Three Preliminary Remarks on Recent Progress in Mathematical Physics. 1321901. FP New Rockville Stock. B.G. Teubner hardcover books
19071341725London: George Bell and Sons 1907. Hardcover. 12mo; G; burgundy spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth exterior shows slight exterior wear; some rubbing to joints; strong straight boards; text block edges have slight toning; previous owner's name to ffep; mild crack to front hinge and gutter at pp 64-65; light pencil inside; pp 475. 1341725. FP New Rockville Stock. George Bell and Sons 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
19711317592New York: Praeger Publishers Inc 1971. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 154; VG-/G-; blue spines with black text; 2 volumes: vol. VI Part I and vol. VI Part II; dust jackets show moderate rubbing wear to exteriors; noticeable wear to edges; moderately sunned exteriors; cloths have lightly sunned exteriors; strong boards; text blocks has light foxing to exterior edges; interiors clean; profusely illustrated; arts - Scandinavian;. 1317592. FP New Rockville Stock. Praeger Publishers, Inc 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
194060949Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1940. First edition. Royal octavo. xi 319 pp. Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt spine and front board. Spine slightly faded else very good. Contents include Governor Vargas's campaign journals correspondence and reports on the economy of New Spain. <br/><br/> University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
20101323936Florence: Mandragora 2010. First U.S. Printing. Softcover. Octavo; pp 219; VG/paperback; black/orange pictorial spine with white and black text; covers show mild rubbing to exterior; intact panels; text block has slight soiling to exterior edges; interior clean; frontispiece;profusely illustrated; arts - History;. 1323936. FP New Rockville Stock. Mandragora unknown books
19811339192St. Paul: Dos Tejedoras 1981. Softcover. Quarto; G; Paperback; Spine silver with black print; Cover has slight edgewear light stains on front else clean and bright; Text block clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the title page; Text in parallel English and Latvian; ii 78 pages illustrated b&w with color plates. <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. 1339192. FP New Rockville Stock. Dos Tejedoras unknown books
198147040New York: Columbia University Press 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xx300pp. Tiny ink rubber-stamp on front pastedown a few marginal notes in light pencil with light wear to spine ends; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped shelfworn gently spine-sunned with some creasing at upper edge of front panel and front flap; Very Good. A hard-edged critique of the Soviet regime and the totalitarian legacy of its founders. Columbia University Press unknown books
20051339620Slough UK: Pauline Books & Media 2005. Softcover. Quarto; G/paperback; spiral binding; illustrated rust red front with ivory and orange text; front has few chips to edges as is; white rear shows slight wear; text block edges have some foxing; broken hinges as is; first and last few pages have foxing; interior text pages good; illustrated with colored plates; unpaginated; arts-Ancient. 1339620. FP New Rockville Stock. Pauline Books & Media unknown books
197220063New York: Hill and Wang 1972. First American Edition. Octavo; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 280pp. Front endpaper slightly toned else a clean tight unmarked copy in lightly rubbed jacket; Near Fine. Final book in Traven's Mahogany or jungle series. This edition reprints Vesey's translation from 1954 published in the UK by Robert Hale. TREVERTON 901 p.93. Hill and Wang 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
197234079Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1972. First US Edition. First Printing wrappered issue. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; xxvi842pp. Light wear to extremities with faint crease to lower corners of a few terminal leaves; Very Good. The Swedish Nobel Prize-winner's second book to be translated into English. University of Pittsburgh Press unknown books
1983WRCLIT51275Richardson TX.: UT at Dallas 1983. Whole numbers one through thirteen. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers and pictorial wrappers. Cheap paper of early newsprint issues tanned as usual ink note on one wrapper else very good to fine. Edited by Rainer Schulte et al. The first number includes a retrospective article on four decades of New Directions and an interview with Gregory Rabassa setting the tone of the continuing significant attention to the mechanics of translations and publication and interviews with or articles by translators in subsequent issues. UT at Dallas unknown books
19471310615Paris: La Ruche 1947. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/fair -'as is' condition in slipcase; Slipcase has faded beige spine; Heavy fraying age wear and moisture stains to slip case large chipping along base case is otherwise intact; Heavy wear to tan board case which covers manuscript moisture stains and foxing along length of spine moisture marks to rear fore edge and along surfaces; Grey covers have heavy shelf wear and age title in blue text; 3 inch open tear along head edge of spine on front cover 1 inch open tear at base of spine; Binding separated fully from joint except at last page Age toned deckled pages intact moisture staining along page edges; Deckled text block exterior text block clean in French language vivid clean illustrations. 1310615. FP New Rockville Stock. La Ruche hardcover books
