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20071318591Austria: Kaiser Massif 2007. Reprinted. Hardcover. Large Quarto; VG/G; white/blue pictorial spine with gray text; dust jacket has light wear to exterior; lightly sunned exterior; mylar wraps; cloth clean; strong boards; text block shows minimal wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; interior clean; profusely illustrated;<br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X. 1318591. FP New Rockville Stock. Kaiser Massif hardcover books
195717897New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 red paper over boards quarterbound in black cloth with titles stamped in pink foil on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 198pp 4; illus. Topstain faded with offsetting and light soil to pastedowns and endpapers and a tiny bumpt lower edge of front board; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped edgeworn lightly sunned at spine with soiling to rear panel; Very Good. The author's scarce second book illustrated throughout with 10 half-tone photographs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
196917896New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth with titles and decoration stamped in gilt and green on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 200pp 8. Contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped and lightly rubbed at the extremities; Near Fine. The author's eighth book a novel of pain frustration and destructive sexual passions. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
195551455London: Faber and Faber 1955. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 67-2222pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine ends gently nudged some faint foxing to endpapers else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s.6d. net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with some faint scattered foxing and dustiness; Very Good. The Polish-American Nobel Prize-winner's second regularly published book a story of "the chaotic horror of the Warsaw rising - when the Red Army stood implacably idel on the Vistula - into the constricting gloom of the Russian occupation; into a poisoned and infected world a world of equivocation and 'double think' where integrity and honesty have become dangerous eccentricities" from front flap. Faber and Faber unknown books
25028New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press 1980. First edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 1/250 copies. Fine. New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1980. unknown books
215002no place: Self-published by the translator no date. 8p. 5.5x8.5 inches very good chapbook in stapled blue decorative wraps. Likely unauthorized translation of an article by the Music programmer at the IMA - Institut du Monde Arabe - and musical journalist. Self-published by the translator unknown books
198918823Citrus Hieghts CA: Conmar Publishing 1989. Paperback. 172p. 8.5x11 inches text in Spanish illustrated withcomical drawings and cartoons very good first edition paperback in white pictorial wraps. Conmar Publishing paperback books
129237N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. <br/><br/>Joseph son of the biblical Jacob is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem in a time when a famine has overtaken the whole region of Egypt and around it forcing ten of his brothers to buy grain from the Egyptians. Joseph toys with them until revealing at the last moment of the play that he is their forgotten and presumed dead brother. <br/><br/>Set in biblical Egypt. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter 158 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
19581336848Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1958. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; light green spine with dark green text; Dumbarton Oaks Studies 3; dust jacket shows some foxing toward edges; chips to fore edges; otherwise slight wear to exterior; cloth clean; mildly bowed boards; text block edges have light foxing; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; frontispiece; interior pages unmarked; good binding; pp 327. 1336848. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover books
191141840New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1911. First American edition with Robinson's illustrations. Small quarto 26cm; blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt gray and green on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvi2111pp with 25 inserted leaves bearing tipped-in color illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Dorothy Peck Clark to front pastedown; light wear to spine ends and corners top edge gilt a bit dulled with a faint diagonal crease to first illustration; hinges sound; Very Good lacking the original glassine and publisher's box. Handsome edition of this dramatic work by the Belgian playwright and poet adapted into film six times between 1910-2011. Dodd, Mead and Company unknown books
19861340358Milan: Cinisello Balsamo 1986. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-/VG-; off-white spine with black text; dust jacket has very slight exterior wear; cloth shows lightly toned head and tail edges; strong boards; text block exterior edges shows mild toning; profusely illustrated; pp 127; arts- Collections. 1340358. FP New Rockville Stock. Cinisello Balsamo hardcover books
1898012460London: Macmillan 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth 4to unpaginated title page in red and black the rest in black. Green cloth faded covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine internals fine. 1908 gift inscription ffe. Solid reference copy. William Brown Macdougall 1868 - 1936 was a Scottish artist wood engraver etcher and book illustrator whose motifs reflected influence of Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts. Macmillan hardcover books
1996JC8572Madrid: Privanza su Banco Personal 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blue slik ornately stamped in gilt red and black; in marbled paper slipcase; 4to; pp. 219 illustrated in full-color. Number 153 from a limited edition of 6000 copies. Bottom corners gently bumped otherwise book is fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. <br/><br/> Privanza su Banco Personal hardcover books
198629878New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; gray cloth and paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 310 2pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with a single small adhesive strip from an old mylar protector at upper spine on verso. A novel set "in the Peru of the near future a country in the throes of an insurgency pitting a Cuban-Bolivian-backed revolutionary army against a failing Lima government and the U.S. Marines" from the front flap. First published in Spainsh two years prior under the title La Historia de Mayta. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
198629879New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; brown cloth and gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 12 240pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with just a hint of sunning to spine. Collection of essays arranged in three sections on Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
196540873n. p.: Gallimard / Hachette 1965. Nouvelle edition New edition. Each title has white cloth color printed bindings. Modest wear to bindings light soiling and rubbing to edges. Each volume in a clear acetate wrapper as issued; small loss to joint foot of one wrapper. A VG set overall. 3 volumes. Vol I: 566 4 pp. Vol II: 593 3 pp. Vol III: 693 5 pp. 8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>A French compilation of Jack London's works - Vols I through III of a 5 volume set. Gallimard / Hachette hardcover books
187427153Barcelona Spain: Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion 1874. lxi 266 pages 1 page plate list 1 publisher's announcements. With 10 black and white plates illustrating the cantos of the poem collated complete. Luis de Camoes c. 1525 - 1580 Portugal's greatest poet the Lusiads his most enduring work; here in Spanish translation. Title page with the small very faint ownership stamp of previous owner George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy surgeon & medical inspector 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6 1/8" x 8 7/8" size; bound in the full polished leather gilt spine titles on contrasting label. Some edge tips wear to the boards; some foxing spotting text & plates; in very good condition. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion books
192939580Florence: G. Orioli 1929. First Edition. Regular Issue one of 1000 numbered copies this one unnumbered. Octavo 20cm; paper vellum boards with titling and decorations printed in black on spine and front cover; xxvi1191pp. Mild toning to extremities hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine with the leaves uncut. Lacking the fragile dustjacket. Despite the printed limitation 2400 copies were printed with the majority of the regular issue lacking numeration on the colophon. ROBERTS A45a. G. Orioli unknown books
185249780London: Henry G. Bohn 1852-1854. New Edition Revised. Three octavo volumes 19cm; publisher's original hunter green blind-embossed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spines; viii544 31 ads; vi538 31 ads; vi494 31pp ads; each volume with portrait frontispiece. Light wear to extremities hinges cracked but holding with gentle bumping to corners and scattered foxing to text edges; Very Good. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
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
196212576n.p. 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. photos & illustrations 100p. Clear acetate jacket present. Thin card slipcase. 32cm. Slipcase soiled. German text. Edition limited to 800 copies of which 500 including this copy were not numbered and signed. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191134109Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1911. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; light brown cloth with titling and decorations stamped in white dark yellow and hunter green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x339pp; frontispiece and 14 plates of illustrations. Brief contemporary 1914 pencil inscription to front endpaper spine ends gently nudged with rubbing to white spine lettering else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned with some dustiness to panels a few small chips to upper edge several tears and a few small moisture stains to spine; Very Good. Second volume featuring Lagerlöf's best-known character Nils Holgersson "whose chief delight was to eat and sleep and after that he liked best to make mischief." This together with its predecessor The Wonderful Adventures of Nils would become Lagerlöf's most popular and enduring work. Lagerlöf was the first female author and first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. Scarce in dustjacket. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
196951331London: Macdonald & Co 1969. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.5cm; orange paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 67-296pp. Spine ends gently nudged hint of offsetting to endpapers with upper rear board corner gently tapped though still sharp; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced £1.75 with some light wear to extremities; Near Fine. Attractive copy of the author's first book set in contemporary Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Macdonald & Co unknown books
1987242794Amsterdam: Stichting Homomonument 1987. Paperback. 61p. 8.25x11.75 inches text in Dutch illustrated with b&w photos and drawings with pink overlay and spot colors very good tall slim trade paperback in stiff wraps original program for the dedication of the monument is laid in. On the memorial honoring gays killed by the Nazis. Stichting Homomonument paperback books
1987127261Amsterdam: Stichting Homomonument 1987. Paperback. 61p. 8.25x11.75 inches text in Dutch illustrated with b&w photos and drawings with pink overlay and spot colors very good tall slim trade paperback in stiff wraps with a decorative dj. On the memorial honoring gays killed by the Nazis. Stichting Homomonument paperback books
