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1978043339Oxford Etc.: Oxford University Press 1978. x 277p. dj slightly sunfaded on the spine Oxford historical monographs. Oxford University Press unknown books
197080370Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1970. cloth dust jacket. Landa Louis A. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. vii 359 pages. First edition. A collection of 17 essays offered as a Festschrift to Landa. Jacket is price clipped. At the Clarendon Press unknown books
1998189162University of California Press 1998-02-11. Paperback. Good. Clean has a good binding blind stamp on the first page- no other marks or notations. University of California Press paperback books
1960131837Paris: La Nef de Paris 1960. Softbound. Good belonged to Le Musee Vivant marked with ink stamps. Cover is creased and lightly soiled. Spine is bumped especially at bottom. Wear to corners. Pages have age toning. White wraps. 192 pp. Uncut pages. 3 BW illustrations. In French. Inscribed in pen: "Hommage de l'auteur Madeleine Rousseau" La Nef de Paris paperback books
197043512Paris: Union Centrale des Art Decoratifs 1970. First Edition. Quarto 30cm x 23.5cm. Pictorial wrappers softcover with French flaps; 104pp; photo illus. Very Good copy; shelf wear to extremities; crease to back cover. Catalogue for the exhibition 'Bolide Design' presented at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1970 exploring the racing car and its design as a work of art and engineering. 49 different automobiles profiled with photographs in color and b&w. In French language only. Union Centrale des Art Decoratifs unknown books
1969244345New York: Portland House 1969. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Preface by Felix Timmermans. Frontispiece 104 plates in full color and 34 in black & white. Tall 4to black cloth d.w. New York: Portland House 1969. Near fine.<br/><br/> Portland House unknown books
195210359Chicago Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago 1952. Softcover. VG light crease to upper corner. Color wraps. 100 pp. 1 color 128 bw plates. Art Institute of Chicago unknown books
196927720Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald 1969. First Edition. 12mo 18cm.; original green printed card wrappers French flaps; 44pp. Fine. Ivorian poetry combining traditional African folklore with "conventional rhetoric of protest" see Albert S. Gérard ed. European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa p. 588. Pierre Jean Oswald unknown books
196334663Paris: Jean Rousseau-Girard 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Overall very good copies 2 with lightly sunned wrappers. Illus. with b/w plates and reproductions. 8vo. Includes catalogues with book nos. 16125-16345 16823-17100 1963 17340-17587 and 17588-17804. Jean Rousseau-Girard unknown books
1904768861904. ROUSSEAU Jean Jacques. THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU. Now for the first time completely translated into English without expurgation. Illustrated with a series of etchings by Ed. Hedouin and two portraits. England: privately printed 1904. First complete English translation. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. orange cloth. Spine and labels somewhat sunned and lightly soiled and a touch of foxing to endpapers else near fine clean copies. unknown books
1904239378N.p. London: Privately printed 1904. 2 etched portrait frontispiece and engraved plates by Hedouin. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Three quarters green polished calf and marbled paper boards gilt spine with raised bands morocco lettering pieces. In matching slipcase. Spines slightly faded. 2 etched portrait frontispiece and engraved plates by Hedouin. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Privately printed unknown books
1938261189London: Nonesuch Press 1938. hardcover. near fine. Introduction by Havelock Ellis. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 2 volumes full cream morocco spines lightly darkened. brown leather spine labels g.t. London: Nonesuch Press 1938. Limited Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> One of 800 numbered copies.<br/><br/> Nonesuch Press unknown books
192859191NY:: Brentano's. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. B001L6N1JO . Complete in two volumes. Translated from the French by W. Conyngham Mallory. Ornamented with thirteen engravings from the Jouaust edition of 1881 by Edmond Heddouin. First edition thus. Octavos bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design top edges gilt in original red dust jackets with black lettering and portrait illustration s of Rousseau on front panels. Both volumes have a circle of fading at mid-spine where the holes in the dust jackets are the holes are there by design to show the volume numbers on the cloth spines else are near fine. The dust jackets are sun faded along the spines and show minor wear and tiny edge tears at the spine ends and around the aforementioned holes else are very good. Housed in a very good edge worn and unevenly faded slipcase. Scarce in the original dust jackets and slipcase. ; 1034 pages . Brentano's, hardcover books
198086885Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1980. Hardcover. B000C2KZOW . Translated from the French by A. S. B. Glover. Collector's edition. Octavo fully bound in gray leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine.; 635 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
193066891Paris: Aux Éditions D'Art de L'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile 1930. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. This is exemplaire number 14 of 25 copies printed on Japon paper. Extra illustrated with two suites of six engravings by Gaston Nick. The colophon calls for a single suite of six engravings. This example houses two suites showing different images. Also includes a bio-bibliography by Fernand Mitton. 24mo. Original cream paper wrappers printed in red and black. Minimal wear; else near fine. Housed in a marbled paper-covered slipcase which is a bit edgeworn. Scarce. Aux Éditions D'Art de L'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile unknown books
1994221709Darmstadt: Wissenschafteliche Buchgesellschaft 1994. Hardcover. vi 234p. text in German introduction bibliography index pictorial endpapers very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dh. Personal inscription to Hubert Kennedy signed by the editor. Contemporary reports by authors and philosophers on the 1775 Lisbon earthquake. Wissenschafteliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover books
192020112401Potsdam: Gustav Keipenheuer 1920. Limited Edition. Vellum. Near fine. No. 164 of 200 copies bound in full vellum quarto size 383 pp. entirely in German. John-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 remains a cornerstone today of modern philosophical thought; his work greatly influenced the Enlightenment and "the development of modern political economic and educational thought." <br/><br/>This work structured as a novel using the vehicle of letters between the protagonist ostensibly explores the themes of temptation sin betrayal and redemption. However "a philosophical theory about authenticity permeates through it as he Rousseau explores autonomy and authenticity as moral values." Immediately popular upon publication in 1761 the publisher was unable to keep up with demand resulting in copies being rented by the day "and even by the hour." <br/><br/>This publication in German is one of the 200 copies bound in full vellum with extensive gilt trim and lettering by Otto Dorfner and his Fachschule für Kunstgewerbliche Buchbinderei in Weimar and contains ten heliogravures from Moreau le jeune made in the shop of Franz Hanfstaegl in Munich. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full vellum with a decorative gilt border on both boards and a gilt decoration in the middle of the front board gilt decorations and lettering on the spine top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges rough-cut marbled endpapers the ten heliogravures bound in throughout limitation statement at the colophon this one of 200 copies bound in full vellum from a total edition of 1200 copies; printed in Didot-Antiqua on Zander laid paper by Mänicke und Jahn of Rudolstadt quarto size 9 7/8" by 7 7/8" pagination: 1-6 7-382 colophon. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine overall the vellum boards clean with some natural variation the bottom front corner gently bumped and the other corners all straight without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright with several signatures unopened and entirely free of prior owner markings; one small mark on the back board a bit of soiling to the spine the front board slightly bowed as is common with vellum bindings and some old bookseller pencil notes on the flyleaf. <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. Gustav Keipenheuer unknown books
1971UROUDIS00HMRGarnier-Flammarion 1971. Very Good. Rousseau Jean-Jacques. Discours sur les sciences et les arts et Discours sur l'Origine de l'Inegalite. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion 1971. 251pp. 16mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light soiling and old price sticker on rear cover. Garnier-Flammarion paperback books
192490381London: John Long 1924. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-254 255: ads 256: blank original decorated sea-green cloth front panel ruled in blind spine panel stamped in black and blind. First edition first printing. Originally published as a serial 1-22 June 1918 in ALL-STORY WEEKLY as "The Draft of Eternity" by Victor Rousseau. "Science fiction novel in which a drug a variant of Cannabis projects the hero into a New York of thousands of years in the future and under Mongol rule." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 77. "Fine novel of the far future when catastrophe has thrown the world back into a medieval society and the time traveling potion has turned the hero into a burly Conan-like hero." - Leon Gammell. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 604. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 652. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 661. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 51. Bleiler 1978 p. 67. Reginald 12503. Two tape ghosts on each free endpaper else a fine copy. A very nice copy of an uncommon book. #90381 John Long unknown books
1925137394London: John Long 1925. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-254 255: ads 256: blank original decorated brown cloth front panel ruled in blind spine panel stamped in black. First edition first printing. A lost race novel first published as a five-part serial in weekly installments of RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE 16 November 1918-15 January 1919 set on Rangarok a warm polar island inhabited by two European lost races and the Trolls aboriginal pygmies who control delusional magic. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 653. See Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 663. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 77. Bleiler 1978 p. 67. Reginald 12504. Embossed stamp of William Hopkins noted collector of fantastic fiction on rear free endpaper. Cloth lightly rubbed along bottom edges some scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves else a clean tight very good copy. An above average copy of this book. The first printing is very uncommon. #137394 John Long unknown books
1946115260New Jersey: Colt Press 1946. Octavo silver cloth. First edition. Some tanning to endpapers half title leaf and title leaf dusty a very good copy. #115260 Colt Press unknown books
195340464London: Cassell 1953. First Edition. 8vo pp. xxiii 428. Index. Blue cloth. Cover worn at edges o/w a VG copy. Cassell unknown books
1998205495New Haven: Yale University Press 1998. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Black & white illustrations. 393pp. Tall 8vo cloth dust wrapper. New Haven: Yale University Press 1998. Near fine.<br/><br/> Yale University Press unknown books
195137698NY: Sidney Janis 1951. Paperback. Very good. 16pp. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn overall else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. <br/><br/>exc r Sidney Janis paperback books
1986151832New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1986. First edition. Softcover. 269 pages. Essays by Roger Shattuck Henri Behar Michel Hoog Carolyn Lanchner and William Rubin. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean and tight very good copy in wrappers with sunning to the spine and rear panel but internally a clean copy. The Museum of Modern Art unknown books
