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1385206659.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1385131594.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1927163206London : Nonesuch Press 1927. Limited Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked quarter-cloth over marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 156 pages; Physical desc. : 156 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Limited Edition: No. 235 of 1500 copies. Subject: Princesses --Babylon Extinct city --Fiction London : Nonesuch Press hardcover
8622London: The Nonesuch Press. MCMXXVII 1927. Hardcover. 12mo 7.5" x 4.75" quarter parchment marbled paper over boards. t.e.g. deckled edges. 4 157 pp. 4 11 full page and 3 smaller illustrations by Lowinsky. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good spine browned covers worn with some loss faint evidence of formerly present label at lower spine. Lacking slipcase. Number 186 of edition limited to 1500 copies. The first Nonesuch Press book illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. "The Princess of Babylon is the airiest and most charming of all Voltaire's romances. Never one thinks was he more aware that he was writing for the fine ladies as well as for philosophers never are his wit and style more perfect.It is the most fanciful and poetic of his parables and yet it had the true Voltairean tang of malice" McKitterick 48. <br /> <br /> Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English and a collector of fine press books. London: The Nonesuch Press. MCMXXVII [1927] unknown
19284038London: Nonesuch Press. Very Good. 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3/4-vellum over marbled boards printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott Hand-made Paper. One of 1500 copies - this copy is not numbered but "Number" is crossed out with the notation "For W. M." . Pencil inscription on front endpaper- "To W. M. From F. M." . May be a copy gifted by Francis Meynell founder of the Nonesuch Press to his father William Meynell. Vellum has light discoloration. ; 157 pages . Nonesuch Press hardcover
192730578London: Nonesuch Press 1927. Edition limited to 1500 copies 12mo pp. 6 156 2; original parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g. publisher's slipcase with copy number '854' and stamped with the title; generally fine. Dreyfus 48. Nonesuch Press unknown
1927324538London: Nonesuch Press 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. Near fine in three quarter vellum with marbled paper covered boards top edge gilt in a good dustwrapper with a browned spine chips at the spine ends and corners soiling. Number 1413 of 1500 copies. Nonesuch Press hardcover
1949250404014Viking 1949. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked/Good. 0x0x0. Previous owner info on front free end paper. Otherwise clean and straight copy. Jacket is rubbed and chipped at extremities spine slightly sunned and worn but overall bright. Unclipped. 569 pp. Viking hardcover
1949GB0016ST4EII3N00Viking Press 1949. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Viking Press hardcover
1977Q-0140150412Penguin Classics 1977-07-28. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
179635912Catskill NY: Printed by T. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. 8 336 pp. Disbound textblock split. Title page engraving of Voltaire by Peter R. Maverick. Good. <br /> <br /> An early Catskill imprint; printing began there in 1792. Evans located no earlier American edition of this work; NAIP records a 1795 New York printing with only three locations. The Publisher's preliminary Advertisement notes "the great noise which the following work has made in foreign parts on account of the author's freedom in regard to matters of religion."<br /> Evans 31518. Printed by T. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York unknown
179665253Catskill: Printed by T. and M. Croswell for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. First American edition. This edition was first published in 1764. Engraved title with vignette portrait by P. R. Maverick of New York. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep morocco label; front joint cracked. Marginal browning of text browning or staining of endpapers else a very good copy with the contemporary signature of John Gebhard Jr on free endpaper. First American edition. This edition was first published in 1764. Engraved title with vignette portrait by P. R. Maverick of New York. 1 vols. 12mo. The editor notes on the advertisement leaf that he recognizes that there might be criticism for the translation and publication of this work "on account of the author's freedom in regard to matters of religion" but feels that the quality of the work exceeds its criticisms and the "True religion is not afraid of bearing the strictest examination." There was strong interest in the French writers of "free thought" and "intellectual liberalism" in America in the eighteenth-early 19th century especially Voltaire and Condillac. The Enlightenment in France greatly influenced the American enlightenment. Library Company of Philadelphia "First American Editions" p. 5; Shipton and Mooney 31518 Printed by T. and M. Croswell for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York unknown
1020073861.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0365189723.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1023780054.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1023784815.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1765186478London: Printed for S. Bladon 1765. Simplicity and lucidity coupled with lively malice and sarcasm First edition in English of Voltaire's incisive exposition of his intellectual project his largest and yet also his most accessible philosophical work structured as a collection of 73 short essays. The Dictionary "consists largely of attacks on religious dogma; at the same time it shows the author's abhorrence of falsehood obscurity and oppression and is written with simplicity and lucidity coupled with lively malice and sarcasm. It was at once ordered to be burnt at Geneva and was subsequently 1765 condemned by the parlement and by Rome" Harvey & Heseltine p. 209. The work was first published in 1764 in Paris. ESTC identifies two editions printed in London in 1765: the other which appears to be a paginary reprint of this edition was done for Thomas Brown. No priority has been established. Octavo 206 x 124 mm pp. iv 335 1. Wood-engraved device to title page. Contemporary sprinkled calf spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco label edges sprinkled red. Contemporary ink signature of one John Hamilton to head of title page. Light rubbing and bumping front joint cracked but holding firm minor browning to contents: a very good copy. ESTC N20652. Paul Harvey & J. E. Heseltine The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959. unknown
1003QXXMXXJLeather Bound. Fair. The philosophical dictionary for the pocket. Translated from the French edition Corrected by the author. Catskill: J. & M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck New York 1796. 12mo. 6 2/8 x 3 6/8 inches. Engraved title-page with vignette of Voltaire engraved by Peter K. Maverick. Contemporary American sheep. Married loose later full leather front cover. Includes front blank; rear blank loose laid-in. Loss at spine tips as pictured. Complete except for front cover. No library or ownership marks. Please see our pics. hardcover
1835054634New York: George H. Evans 1835. No Statement of Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in tan paper-covered boards and brown cloth spine Covers worn paper tanned text unmarked and fully legible throughout. Not ex-library. <br/> <br/> George H. Evans hardcover
1379925878.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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