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1999147497Valencia: Ediciones Art Teatral 1999. 227p. text in Spanish very good first Spanish edition in trade wraps. Ediciones Art Teatral unknown books
198643970Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corp. Near Fine. 1986. Hardcover. Beijing: China Translation and Publishing Corp. 1986. First edition. No page numbers 82 beautiful color plate reproductions. Folio copy 15" x 10.5" in original pictorial slipcase. Interior is as new. Brown cloth binding is tight and unmarked. A near fine copy in a like DJ/slipcase. . China Translation & Publishing Corp hardcover books
196917735London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969. First UK Edition. First Impression preceded by the American edition published by Grove the previous year. Octavo; purple paper over boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 214pp. Subtle fading along upper board edges else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is a Fine unclipped example without yellowing or toning to edges. The Nobel Prize-winner's best-known work and the first to be translated into English. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
196817736New York: Grove Press 1968. First American Edition. First Printing and correct First preceding the British edition by one year. Octavo; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 214pp. Top edge slightly dusty else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket lightly rubbed with a few small spots of soil along upper edge. The Nobel Prize-winner's best-known work and the first to be translated into English. Grove Press unknown books
1929008076London: The Nonesuch Press 1929. Fine in Very Good slipcase a 3" tear top edge at spine light rubbing to edges. #186 of 1600 copies printed by the Curwen Press in hand-set Janson type on Van Gelder paper. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt stamping in the publisher's sliding case. Designed by Francis Meynell who chose Astrological designs to be stencilled in genuine gold onto colored panels to serve as chapter openers; the title page also contains an elegant arrangement using signs. No. 65 in John Dreyfus's catalogue of the Press. A lovely book in a better slipcase than usually seen. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Vellum. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Nonesuch Press Hardcover books
1972140937606New York: E.P. Dutton and Company Inc 1972. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. 146 pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with a little staining to front board in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small closed tears along top edge vintage bookstore sticker on front flap. E.P. Dutton and Company Inc unknown books
198644769New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.25cm; beige paper and brown cloth-covered boards with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv3804pp; illus. Some trivial wear to board edges else Fine in a lightly shelfworn Near Fine dustjacket. Memoirs of a Cuban political prisoner held in Isla de Pinos prison for 22 years detailing the day-to-day conditions he and his fellow inmates lived in tortures they suffered through and his release. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1987216487Paris: Le Nouveau Commerce 1987. Twelve panel folded broadside 6.5x8.5 inches green text and portrait of Barnes on light green papier Peau d'éléphant bilingual texts in English and in French fine copy #434/500 copies hand-numbered folded and bound with green silk cord. The poem was written in 1918. Le Nouveau Commerce 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
19899011101New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates 1989. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The book has minor shelf wear to the bottom edge. <br/><br/> Hugh Lauter Levin Associates hardcover books
19921317057Jerusalem; New York: Gefen Publishing House Ltd; Gefen Books 1992. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 91; VG-/no-DJ; light beige spine with blue gilt and red text; cloth has slight wear to exterior; minor rubbing to edges; sunned spine; slightly splayed boards; text block show slight shelf wear to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; Hebrew and English texts;. 1317057. FP New Rockville Stock. Gefen Publishing House Ltd; Gefen Books hardcover books
197118266Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 1971. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; light brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp. Top edge lightly foxed with faint spotting scattered along panels; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly rubbed at extremities with a touch of sunning to spine; Very Good. A collection of 14 essays which survey the achievement of American literature covering a multitude of genres. The University Press of Kentucky unknown 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
1937147541N.p.: N.p. 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren uncredited in the final film added to the cast list in holograph pencil and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences A through H.<br/><br/>A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love triangle between Lady Maria Barker Marlene Dietrich her husband the British diplomat Sir Frederich Barker Herbert Marshall and the charming traveler Anthony Halton Melvyn Douglas set throughout Europe with an oncoming war looming.<br/><br/>Set in London Paris and Vienna. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Untitled self wrappers. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered H-19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/28/37 and 2-1-37. Pages Very Good plus some front leaves with light soiling wrapper Very Good lightly soiled dampstaining separating at the spine side stapled with three staples. N.p. unknown books
198016020555Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio size 124 pp. inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760 and by 1822 there were plantations in the area with more than fifty thousand coffee plants with massive tracts of rainforest being cleared first from the vicinity of Rio and later Sao Paulo for coffee growing. The families owning the plantations built huge homes some of them almost small castles - one of which the Parque Sao Clemente had ceilings so beautiful that special reclining chairs were installed so that they could be better admired. This book explores those fazendas both inside and out to provide a glimpse into this glittering past. The text of the book is in Portuguese and an accompanying softcover book has the English translation.<br/><br/>This volume was previously owned by Claudio Arrau 1903-1991 a Chilean pianist widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan cloth with black paper boards pictorial paste-down of one of the plantation houses inset into the front board with titlte in silver brown lettering on the spine decorative endpapers of stylised palm trees title page in red and black with a small tipped-in photograph tipped-in colour photographs throughout drawn map towards the rear of the book showing the location of the fazendas along the Rio Paraiba do Sul; folio size 13.75" by 10.5" pagination: i-iii 1-2 3-111 112-121 inscribed by Claudio Arrau "Rio de Janeiro 1981" on the first flyleaf. Please note the text is in Portuguese. Accompanying English translation in English a softcover booklet in black paper wraps stapled at the spine with gold lettering and publisher's device on the front cover 19 pp. In a slipcase covered in green paper with stylised palm tree pattern and a pictorial paper label on the front board.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright with the only prior owner markings in both volumes being the name written of Claudio Arrau as noted above and each of the tipped-in photographs is in fine condition; some light stray soil marks on the spine and a small old dampstain on the bottom edge of the spine a few of the final pages have some minor rippling from the old damp else fine. The accompanying English translation is also near fine clean overall with a few shallow creases on the wraps. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall some minor overall edge wear and it appears to have gotten wet at some point as the back is warped and the paper coverings are rippled. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 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
195729584NY: Limited Editions Clunb 1957. Hardcover. Very good. #1014 of 1500cc signed by the illustrator. Spine darkened else very good in a heavily rubbed slipcase. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Clunb hardcover books
19719007144New York: Schirmer 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Text is in French and English. <br/><br/> Schirmer paperback books
199754381Miami: Ediciones Universal 1997. Paperback. 187p. bilingual text in English and Spanish b&w photos very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Ediciones Universal paperback books
19601311633Brussels: The Belgian Congo And Ruanda-Urundi Information and Public Relations Office 1960. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/Hardcover; Blue spine with gold text; Heavy shelf wear to covers warping and creasing of spine which is bent out of shape light marks and rubbing to surfaces; Binding intact but skewed due to spine attached on rear paste-down is a map index age toned pages foxing along paste-downs and free end pages toning to sides and edges of pages; Age toning to text block exterior text block clean maps and graph illustrations; 187 pp. 1311633. FP New Rockville Stock. The Belgian Congo And Ruanda-Urundi Information and Public Relations Office hardcover books
1981001656Budapest: Corvina Kiado Magyar Helikon Kner Printing House 1981. Second revised edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Lavish survey of the holdings of the preeminent collection of illuminated manuscripts. 334 pp. With 114 color plates all 33 by 23 cm. Crack in hinge by first text page. Otherwise very clean and bright. <br /><br /> Corvina Kiado, Magyar Helikon, Kner Printing House hardcover books
196726598New York: Viking Press 1967. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 189pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with some pinpoint wear and a few tiny edge tears. English translation of the East German author's collection of seven short stories. Viking Press unknown books
198018288New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 black paper over quarter yellow cloth wiht titles stamped in copper foil on spine; dustjacket; 231pp. Bookplate signed by Fuentes loosely laid in. Faint foxing to text edges else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with just a touch of wear to extremities; Near Fine. Collects 11 stories by the acclaimed Mexican author. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux unknown books
19861321038Athens: Ministry of Culture Byzantine Museum 1986. Softcover. Quarto; pp 265; G/paperback; black spine with ivory text; covers show slight rubbing to exterior; modest rubbing to edges; intact panels; faux flaps; text block clean; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - Early Christian; <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. 1321038. FP New Rockville Stock. Ministry of Culture, Byzantine Museum 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
