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197718138Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 200 numbered copies signed by Mrabet and Bowles on the colophon. Slim octavo; 3/4 light blue paper over boards quarterbound in red cloth with blue spine label printed in black and red; 77pp 4. Trivial sunning to upper board edges else Fine in the Near Fine original acetate dustjacket. Black Sparrow Press unknown books
198518181San Francisco: City Lights 1985. First American Edition. First Printing and correct First preceding the British edition by 3 years. Octavo; brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp 1. Fine in a Fine dustjacket one of a very small number of copies bound in cloth. The Guatemalan author's first book a collection of short fiction. City Lights unknown books
196858234New York and London: Columbia University Press. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Second Printing. Tan cloth boards with gilt and red stamping Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dj. . Columbia University Press hardcover books
2006251280Berkeley: Heyday Books / The Bancroft Library 2006. Paperback. xxxvii 470p. generic inscription signed by both authors prologue introduction testimonies appendices notes glossary bibliography index photos very good first edition trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. Heyday Books / The Bancroft Library paperback books
1930187250Leipzig: Printed by Poeschel & Trepte at Leipzig for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1930. Hardcover. 118p. 9x14.5 inches folio168/1500 copies signed by the illustrator lithographs printed by hand introduction mild shelfwear bookplate of John W. Hancock otherwise very good bound in unbleached linen spine over hand-made Japanese paper boards decorated on the cover with embossed design hand-set type mylar jacket worn soiled and split slipcase with original title label intact laid-in a card from the LEC describing the book the fourth in a series from Germany. Printed by Poeschel & Trepte at Leipzig for Members of the Limited Editions Club hardcover books
188643990New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1886. First American Edition. First Printing a review copy with two printed publisher's slips - one tipped onto front endpaper the other loosely laid in. Octavo 18.75cm; publisher's burgundy cloth with titling and the Russian coat of arms stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece 45-2951pp. Forward lean gentle sunning to spine with a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and some scattered rubbed spots to lower covers; Very Good. Scarce advance copy of Gogol's historical novella centered around Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his two sons. Preceded in English only by its inclusion in Cossack Tales London: J. Blackwood 1860. A significant title - its publication by Crowell was the first volume in a series of Gogol's works published in the United States preceding the London edition Vizetelly 1887 by one year and is apparently the first publication of any of Gogol's works in America. LINE Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945 p.20. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co unknown books
19641324360New York: Random House 1964. Hardcover. Quarto; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine white with red and green print; Boards in glossy illustrated paper light wear to spine caps plastic film tearing along front hinge slight soiling; Text block has spotting to endpapers shaken binding; unpaged illustrated color. 1324360. FP New Rockville Stock. Random House hardcover books
19871312496Lucerne: Richemont Craft School 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Oblong Octavo; pp 291; VG-/no-DJ; ivory spine with dark brown text; cloth shows minor wear to exterior; minor dings to edges; strong boards; text block shows light wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; very light foxing to edges of first and last few pages. 1312496. FP New Rockville Stock. Richemont Craft School hardcover 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
193325423New York: Liveright Inc. Publishers 1933. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 463pp. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket; unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned with light edgewear overall dustiness and a few short tears. Danish author's novel about a young girl's rise from humble surroundings to the sophisticated upper class after marrying the son of a wealthy ship-owner. Scarce in dustjacket. Liveright, Inc., Publishers unknown books
1963245436San Juan PR: Ediciones Juan Ponce de Leon 1963. Paperback. 91p. texts in English and Spanish introduction poems very good second edition paperback in Frenchfold cream wraps with vignette on cover rubricated titles and light toning. Originally published in Manati PR in 1956 this edition printed and distributed in Spain with new introduction. Ediciones Juan Ponce de Leon paperback books
199761184Atglen PA: Schiffer Military History. Very Good. 1997. Paperback. 0764302884 . 144pp. Paperback. Illustrations by Zdenek Komanec. Very Good. . Schiffer Military History paperback books
198118272New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 red paper over quarter cream cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 160pp. Fine in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket with a touch of fading to spine darkening to joints on verso with a one inch crease extending from the upper front joint into the front panel. Originally published in Spanish using the joint pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq the book was meant to be a parody of the modern detective novel. A Queen's Quorum title. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1946261646Berkeley: University of California Press 1946. Second printing of this UC Berkeley production: xxxv 680p. rubricated titlepage illustrated with the tables and diagrams called for hardbound in massive brown buckram boards spine-titled gilt. A bit dim with age spine lettering legible but just barely otherwise an all-round good copy; hinges sound endsheets clean and free of any marking no ownership or institutional traces: condition may be described as good to very good. University of California Press unknown books
193623297New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1936. Octavo 20cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; maroon topstain; dustjacket; 439pp. Minor rippling to spine cloth with a small streak of topstain dye to right edge of textblock and some bleed-through from same to upper edge of endpapers; Very Good. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned with a few small tears and corresponding bleed-through and damp marks on verso; Very Good. Revolutionary novel of the early days of the Spanish Civil War set within the socialist and anarchist milieu of pre-war Madrid. Sender an anarchist and a Republican sympathizer fled Spain in 1938 and became one of the best-known Spanish exile-intellectuals of the post-war period publishing more than twenty books before his death in 1982. Liveright Publishing Corporation unknown books
1948263113Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn staples rusted wraps beginning to separate from staples else good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
1948262066Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn a few small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
1948261326Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn rear wrap soiled small tear on front wrap at staple else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
1948256766Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. Pamphlet. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown books
197719199New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 mint green paper over quarter brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 206pp 4. Hint of sunning to upper board edges with three tiny dents to front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with corresponding dents to front panel; Near Fine. The Chilean author's sixth book translated into English collecting three novellas. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1998Embry 196250Mazda 1998. First edition first printing. Fine. Cloth no dust jacket as issued. Mazda, 1998. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1922CNWB07Munich: Orchis-Verlag 1922. Hardcover. Very good . Masjutin Wassilij. Folio size 68 pp. in German. Russian poet and novelist Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799-1837 considered the founder of modern Russian literature wrote "Ruslan and Ludmilla" an epic fairy tale filled with adventure magic and love; it tells of the knight Ruslan who goes on a quest to rescue Ludmilla a princess of Kiev after she is kidnapped by an evil wizard. The story is told in verse and divided into six "Songs" and one epilogue; it was later adapted into an opera by famed Russian composer Mikhail Glinka 1804-1857.<br/><br/>Accompanying the poem are illustrations by Wassilij Masjutin Vasily Masyutin 1884-1955 a Russian-German artist who illustrated numerous books by Russian authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol; for Pushkin's verses he creates full-length portraits of the characters and each is hand-coloured by R. Müller per the colophon. The prologue of the poem describes a cat walking around a tree on a gold chain a cat who tells fables and as it paces it begins to tell this tale; the cat pacing around the tree is illustrated on the front board of the book.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: White cloth spine with cream paper boards hand-coloured illustration of a cat pacing around a tree on the front board title and author written by hand in brown ink on the spine top edge stained red mauve endpapers title page in red and black with publisher's device in red text inside red ruled and decorative borders throughout full-page illustrations by Wassilij Masjutin hand-coloured by R. Müller throughout; folio size 13.25" by 9.75" pagination: 1-7 8-67 1 colophon. Please note the text is in German. Per the colophon there were 100 special copies printed on rag paper and signed by the artist; this volume is a standard copy.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is very good plus with a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and entirely free of prior owner markings; front and rear boards are lightly foxed spine is lightly soiled light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine the corners are gently bumped and somewhat rubbed interior pages are lightly toned at the margins but with the red borders and illustrations still bright there is one cracked gutter at pages 52 and 53 but text block is still strong. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE:  International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Orchis-Verlag hardcover books
196618081301New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1966. 2nd Printing. Leather bound. Fine. Karlin Eugene. Octavo size 93 pp. Omar Khayyam 1048-1131 was a Persian mathematician and astronomer best known for his work on cubic equations and for designing the Jalali calendar; many poems are attributed to him though with much skepticism and uncertainty in the academic world in the quatrain style. English poet Edward Fitzgerald 1809-1883 created the first and most famous translation of Khayyam's poetry "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" translated from Farsi to English greatly popular among the Pre-Raphaelites during the Orientalism period at the end of the nineteenth century. <br/><br/>This text is accompanied by alluring line-drawings by Eugene Karlin 1918-2003 an illustrator and painter who created drawings for magazines and books as well as landscape paintings; his delicate linework provides a gentle visual to the poetry. This edition is stated second printing; however it is bound in full morocco as the deluxe first edition.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red morocco gilt-stamped line drawing by Eugene Karlin on the front board gilt lettering on the spine top edge gilt red marbled endpapers frontispiece line illustration of a couple embracing by Karlin black-and-white line drawings by Karlin throughout; Bembo type octavo size 9.25" by 6.75" pagination: i-iv v-ix 1-2 3-80 81-84. In a brown paper slipcase with a glossy paper label on one side with black lettering and a full-colour illustration by Karlin.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall with minor soiling to the paper label and to the back board and some rubbing to the bottom edges and to the corners of the opening.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown 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
193826834Yanaginobaba Sanjo Kyoto Nippon: Nippon Flower Arrangement Society 1938. Boards. Very Good. 50 leaves. Oblong quarto 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches "Silk" decorative cloth over boards with original paper label on front board. Ties at spine as published. Cloth separating at spine folds mostly front cover. Leaves printed on recto only. Title page preface plus 48 leaves each with a color image of the arrangement and text in Japanese and English describing the composition composer etc. Apparently lacking blank flyleaf before the title page. Tape repair to front pastedown. Stain to front cover upper left. Clean internally. Boards. Nippon Flower Arrangement Society unknown books
