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192918836Chicago: Argus Books 1929. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Austen. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration dust jackets black textured paper-over-boards slipcase. 288pp 300pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispieces 7 and 6 engravings respectively some in color tissue guarded. Fine/very good/very good. Books are pristine while dust jackets both show faintly age toned spines and slipcase shows mild edgewear and couple of archivally strengthened seams. Handsome tight first illustrated edition of this 1917 bestselling novel set off the coast of Italy on a thinly-veiled Capri where Douglas lived much of his life. Accompanying this is an exceptional black-and-white portrait of Douglas in later life heavy stock 3½" X 5½" n.p. n.y. Near fine. Two unobtrusive small tape stains on verso. Informal profile portrait of a pipe-smoking older Douglas seated and clutching a cane by famed portrait photographer CECIL BEATON 1904-80. Douglas had several portrait sessions with Beaton in the 1940s including one in which he wears this same attire but the date of this sitting is unknown. This real-photo postcard bears printed lines for recipient address but was never addressed or mailed. It does bear boldly inked in blue ballpoint identifying information on verso in Beaton's hand: "George Norman Douglas / English Author / Born 1868 -- / Death in Capri 1952." A beautiful set with memorable illustrations and fine author portrait with notes in famed photog Beaton's script. Argus Books hardcover
1881276980Verlag von Leykam-Josefsthal Graz 1881. Harcover mit Leinenrücken und -ecken 1881-1906. Jahrgang VXVIIXVIIIXIXXXIXXIIXXIIIXXIVXXVXXVIXXVIIXXVIIIXXIXXXX. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen Exemplare einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Nachgebunden. Verlag von Leykam-Josefsthal, Graz, unknown
190028625J W Arrowsmith Bristol 1900. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations throughout; handsomely bound in blue full crushed morocco back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt gilt top gilt and lettering from original backstrip and upper board preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves ribbon marker a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. An elegant copy of the late-nineteenth century classic. J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, hardcover
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured plates throughout; pictorial cloth, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EXTREMELY SCARCE
1958031205San Pedro: Exodus Gallery 1958. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Single Sheet Folded Twice For Mailing. Cover With Text And A Calendar- With Extra Line Of Blank Date Boxes Along Bottom. Inside Is A 15 Line Statement By Kienholz In Elaborate Type In All Capital Letters Reading: "I Think All Great Art With Fadish Must Out Over Smitages Of Gratification Of Will In Our Time And Overbear Ego Manifestations And Thereby Probably Inside Searching For Pleadable Suggestion To Permanage." Etc.; Below "B. S. Stand For Bull Shit And Insidentally Sic The Gallery Is Open Sunday Aft. 2-5. Edward Kienholz / Los Angeles". Rare. <br/> <br/> Exodus Gallery unknown
1959267644Gruppo Biblico Milanese Milano Genova 1959. Hardcover mit Leinenrücken und -ecken ohne Schutzumschlag 15 Bände 4 Softcover-Hefte/Band 1959 1968-1983. Als Softcover-Hefte/Band: Novembre Dicembre 1959 Nr. 119: Gennaio-Marzo; Nr. 120: Aprile-Giugno; Nr. 122: Ottobre-Dicembre 1979. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Mit Kennungen einer Klosterbibliothek. Gruppo Biblico Milanese, Milano + Genova, paperback
This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little wear to the spine tips, and a very good hardshell slipcase, with some wear to the corners. Completely clean inside. The black paper-covered slipcase has a few scuffs, but generally clean, the tipped-on color plate fine. Text in French and Japanese. The book was designed and produced in Japan and uses different color Japanese handmade papers of heavy stock on which are mounted the color plates. The subject of the book is 18th century French pottery with floral designs, in Swiss collections, with many pieces from the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel and Musee d'Histoire in Berne. All plates have minimal information about the provenance and date of the pieces. There are also many black & white illustrations reproducing patterns on pottery. Preface by Jean-Pierre Jelmini, Conservateur at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel. The book was edited by Kumano and Anne-Claude Kotaro. 15" high X 11" wide, 208 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
195228239Heinemann 1952. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Heinemann, hardcover
006176<p>Rochester New York: Stecher Litho Company Circe 1890's. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 8" x 5 3/4"</p><p>"Stecher Litho Company Rochester New York original stone lithography chromolithograph plate prints circa 1898 Nurseryman Sample Book"</p><p>Nave blue cloth boards. No indication on cover or spine of what the book is. Research online indicates a Nurseryman Sample Book.<br />Contains 89 original stone lithography prints of various vintage fruit trees that would have been for sale at that time.<br />The first few prints show Rochester Litho Co. and the rest of them show Stecher Litho Company.<br />The prints are stunning with incredible detail.<br />This book is very old. The spine at the back is pulling away a tiny bit. Pages are discoloured with age. 1st few prints have been repaired with tape and have a few tears around the edge. There are a few that have stains. Majority of them are in very good condition. Some of the prints are missing but there are 89 left.</p> Stecher Litho Company hardcover
19305725San Francisco: Privately Printed. Near Fine. 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 33 of 60 copies printed. 18 pp.; tall quarto; gray cloth; printed green paper cover label; without slipcase. Frontispiece of the Stevenson Monument by Ansel Adams pencil signed lower right corner. Frontis has the usual hotizontal shadows of offset from facing printed page. Faint scattered flecks of soil to cover; hint of darkening to spine. The colophon states: "This book was privately printed for Garfield D. Merner and is didicated by him to Flodden W. Heron in apperciation of a Stevenson Night given by Mr. Heron before the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. It was printed by Cecil and James Johnson at The Windsor Press San Francisco set in Goudy Antique type. The photograph of the of the Stevenson Memorial was specially taken for this book by Ansel E. Adams." Text of David Anderson's piece about the Memorial Robert Louis Stevenson and the history of the architecture of the area and of San Francisco.; Signed by Authors . Privately Printed hardcover
16-6328Late 19th or early 20th Century. . Drawing. Signed: Auvrest fecit. 25.5 x 16.4cm. Numeric notation verso. Likely not the Auvrest cited by the Met Museum in The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1963Object Number: 63.608.12.Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Late 19th or early 20th Century. unknown
16-633016th or 17th Century. . Drawing in sanguine. 16 x 9cm. Artist's name in pencil verso. Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. 16th or 17th Century. unknown
196530061965 - 2008. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Novels1. Fair Game. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & World 1965. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. 8vo; cloth in moderately soiled white dust jacket. Bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine condition in like dust jacket in mylar wrap. 3010 2. Loving Hands at Home. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. 8vo; cloth in orange dust jacket. Jacket spine faded else very crisp. Fine condition in Very Good or better jacket in Mylar Wrap. 3007 3. Burning. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. First Edition. 8vo; cloth in price clipped red dust jacket. Small area of what appears to be glue residue from sticker on front pastedown offsetting to endpaper; jacket rubbed at edges faded at spine with light soil to back panel. Near fine condition in very good jacket with protective mylar wrap. 3008 4. The Shadow Knows. N.Y.: Knopf 1974. First Edition. 8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3009 5. Lying Low. N.Y.: Knopf 1978. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in lightly soiled white dust jacket. Erasure smudge upper right corner of front endpaper. Near Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3011 6. Persian Nights. N.Y.: Knopf 1987. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Minor wear to corner tips of jacket; minor soil to white back panel. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3012 7. Health and Happiness. N.Y.: Knopf 1990. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket with protective mylar wrap. 3013 8. Le Divorce. N.Y.: Dutton 1997. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket with protective mylar wrap. 3014 9. Le Mariage. N.Y.: Dutton 2000. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket with protective mylar wrap. 3015 10. L'Affaire. N.Y.: Dutton 2003. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket. 3016 Non-Fiction11. The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives. N.Y.: Knopf 1972. First Edition. 8vo; cloth in price clipped jacket; black & white photographs. A few nicks to jacket at edges. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3017 12. Dashiell Hammett A Life. N.Y.: Random House 1983. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in price clipped jacket; black & white photographs. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3018 13. Terrorists & Novelists. N.Y.: Knopf 1982. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in white jacket with minor tanning at top edges. Fine condition in Near Fine jacket with mylar wrap. 3019 14. Natural Opium Some Travelers' Tales. N.Y.: Knopf 1993. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in white jacket. Fine condition in Fine jacket with protective mylar wrap. 3020 15. Uncorrected Proof Copy: Natural Opium Some Travelers' Tales. N.Y.: Knopf 1993. First Edition. 8vo; printed gray wrappers. Fine condition. 3021 16. Into a Paris Quartier. Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain. Washington DC: National Geographic Society 2005. First Edition. 8vo; cloth backed boards in dust jacket. Double page map; black & white photographs. Fine condition in Fine jacket. 3022 Biographical Anthologies17. Yalom Marilyn. Women Writers of the West Coast. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1983. First Edition. 8vo; salmon wrappers; black & white portrait photographs by Margo Davis. Wraps faded at extremities. Very Good condition. Section with photograph from a conversation with Johnson and Susan Groag Bell Historian April 28 1983. 3023 18. Olson Diane. The Book That Changed My Life. Interviews with National Book Award Winners & Finalists. N.Y.: The Modern Library 2002. 8vo; wrappers. Black & white portrait photos. Fine condition. Interview with Diane Johnson. 3024 19. 2 Volumes Darnto; Signed by Authors . 1965 - 2008 hardcover
19620008589New York / Monte Carlo: George Braziller / Andre Sauret 1962. First English language edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. Marc Chagall. Tall quarto 210 pages red cloth; fine dj with mylar protector ; lacks slipcase. <br/><br/>These twelve stained glass windows memorialize the twelve tribes of Israel. This work contains the two original color lithographs printed by Mourlet Freres under Chagall's supervision. The 36 preparatory designs had as many as twenty colors. These windows were created for the synagogue at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center outside Jerusalem. With 106 plates. George Braziller / Andre Sauret hardcover
1823001085Paris: Chez Dalibon Imprimerie de Jules Didot lainé 1823-1826 1823. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 9 volumes. With 12 plates including 2 portraits of Rabelais and 10 scenes after the drawings of Devéria. Included also is the fold-out "carte du Chinonois" which according to Brunet is not found in all copies. Volume IX "les songes drolatiques" contains an additional title page a facsimile of the 1565 title and 120 full page woodcut grotesques reproduced by Thompson after those in the original edition Brunet. This edition includes commentaries and notes by Jacob Le Duchat Charles Esmangart Éloi Johanneau Volataire etc. Bound in period cats-paw calf boards with gilt double fillet borders and board edge decoration; expertly re-backed with the spine displaying gilt raised bands gilt labels and panels stamped in blind. Binding shows areas of rubbing and wear to the extremities. Interior pages contain mild to moderate scattered foxing heavier on several pages; an occasional lightly penciled note is present in the margins; a couple minor edge tears are neatly sealed. A chip 1 cm wide x 5mm deep is located on the upper edge of p. 277 Vol. VIII. This edition of Rabelais oeuvres contains notes by many past commentators. Brunet IV 1061; Graesse VI p. 7. <br/> <br/> Chez Dalibon (Imprimerie de Jules Didot lainé) 1823-1826 hardcover
605122<p>not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of William Saroyan wearing a double breasted suit long silk tie white shirt holding a cigarette looking down and to the right of the camera. Photograph is by Henry Flannery San Francisco; matte finish; 8" x 10". Very good-fine old glue stains on verso fresh. ca. mid 1930'a.</p> unknown books
605122<p>not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of William Saroyan wearing a double breasted suit long silk tie white shirt holding a cigarette looking down and to the right of the camera. Photograph is by Henry Flannery San Francisco; matte finish; 8" x 10". Very good-fine old glue stains on verso fresh. ca. mid 1930'a.</p> unknown
199491510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
174420148Printed by A. Reilly on Cork-Hill for Robert Owen in Skinner-Row and William Brien in Dame-Street Dublin 1744. 2 vols. 8vo. with a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 fine wood-engraved plates 5 folding some light and inoffensive age-staining small neat signature on front free endpapers; attractively bound in late eighteenth century calf backs with five raised bands second and fourth compartments with respectively red and green leather labels lettered numbered and ruled in gilt all other compartments ruled in gilt covers mildly age-worn a larger scuff on each upper board joints lightly rubbed else an unusually well-preserved firm copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John Birney on front paste-downs one bookplate defaced. With the full index in each volume 14pp and 18pp respectively and 8pp list of subscribers and separate single leaf of additional subscribers often missing at end of first volume. The first edition with Grey's extensive notes and splendid plates engraved by Mynde after Hogarth. The frontispiece is engraved by Vertue after Soest. The present copy is almost certainly an Irish pirated version of Bentham's Cambridge edition of the same year. The list of subscribers includes several Irish booksellers who presumably resold the Cambridge edition. A clean copy with particularly sharp impressions of the plates. See NCBEL II p.437 Printed by A. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for Robert Owen in Skinner-Row, and William Brien in Dame-Street, Dublin, hardcover
1737GITj821A paris chez Carouge 1737. 1 volume minuscule in -128 (3,2cm X 2cm) 1 feuillet non chiffré 3-187pp 2 feuillets non chiffrés. Plein maroquin grenat, dos lisse décoré à la grotesque, plats ornés de filets et fleurettes d'angles dorés, tranches dorées, reliure de l'époque. BEL EXEMPLAIRE DE CE TOUT PETIT LIVRE DANS SA JOLIE RELIURE TYPIQUE DE L'EPOQUE solide, en très bon état et décorative, texte complet et bien imprimé.
113943Bruxelles 1965 - 1995. H.cl. & wrs. 25 cm Vol. 24/30 rebound in red half cloth vols. 31-54 in publisher's red paper wrappers hardcover
8309Nancy, Imprimeries Réunies. S. d. (vers 1900). In-8 oblong broché, couverture légèrement usée et salie sinon bon état. Intéressant catalogue des productions Majorelle illustré de 96 planches recto-verso de verreries, éclairages, ferronneries, meubles, reproduits en héliogravure.
8309Nancy, Imprimeries Réunies. S. d. (vers 1900). In-8 oblong broché, couverture légèrement usée et salie sinon bon état. Intéressant catalogue des productions Majorelle illustré de 96 planches recto-verso de verreries, éclairages, ferronneries, meubles, reproduits en héliogravure.
1835R160204450L. TENRE. 1835. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 212 pages - nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et cartes dépliantes - textes sur 2 colonnes. . . . Classification Dewey : 708-Galeries, musées, collections d'art
182641053H. L. Broenneri. 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Rebound in quarter black cloth binding with brown boards. Attractive copy. Institution stamp to front inner cover and titlepage. No other markings. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Some foxing.; Text in Greek; editorial matter in Latin. Cxliv 150 pp; 150 pages . H. L. Broenneri hardcover