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92 pages. Text in French. Features: Le Chapitre Des Chapeaux; Ensemble a Cape Pour Le Printemps; Le Mouvement Projete En Avant; L'Ecole De Ski; Sous Le Soleil De Sestrieres; Les Nouvelles Collections; A La Decouvert; Le Massage Facial; Idees Nouvelles Dans Les Bikoux; Accessoires; Fraicheir Du taffetas Quadrille; S.A.R. La Princesse Marina De grece; Mue De L'Homme, par Jean-Richard Bloch; Matins de Printemps; Sur La Cote De Floride; A Burlington House; Sur La Scene; Many gorgeous vintage ads. Above-average wear. Soiling to front cover. Binding intact. Missing pages 71-72. A worthy reference copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
1658001066Leiden: Jean Elsevier Elzevir 1658. Hardcover. See Description. Small 12mo. pp. 417 1. With extra engraved title page. Bound in period full red morocco. Spine is gilt in compartments; boards are richly gilt with floral borders. The binding is well preserved with only minor spots of wear. All edges of the book block are gilt. The extra engraved title is tightly trimmed with no outer margin. Interior pages contain occasional mild marginal spotting but are otherwise generally clean. Lucans epic poem "Pharsalia" written during the reign of Nero concerns the Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey. In 48 b.c.e the conflict came to a conclusion with Pompeys defeat on the Thessalian plains of Pharsalus. The poem then extends down to the capture of Egyptian Alexandria. Lucans epic is also noted for containing many elements of the supernatural including turgid scenes of magic and witchcraft. Translated from the Latin into French verse by the French poet and translator Georges de Brébeuf. The first de Brébeuf edition was published by De Sommaville in Paris 1655. Willems 827; Rahir 826; Berghman 907 - "Édition belle et des plus appréciées" <br/> <br/> Jean Elsevier [ Elzevir ] hardcover
111 VOLUMES IN 10 Portfolios. 36 KG. 365X280 mm. Soft cover. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
19062221908<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with color frontispiece four full page b/w plates and many marginal vignettes by Charles Copeland. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial dust jacket which reproduces the frontispiece. Rare thus. Very good. 296 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Long on front free endpaper: "One Man to Another."</p> Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press hardcover books
19062221908<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with color frontispiece four full page b/w plates and many marginal vignettes by Charles Copeland. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial dust jacket which reproduces the frontispiece. Rare thus. Very good. 296 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Long on front free endpaper: "One Man to Another."</p> Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press hardcover
190312194Constable 1903. 12 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus on laid paper some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth gilt backs gilt tops save Beazley uncut a very good bright firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library Edinburgh. This valuable compilation of tracts poetry prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken G.A. Later Stuart Tracts 1903; Beazley C.R. Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries 2 vols 1903; Bullen A.H. Shorter Elizabethan Poems 1903; Bullen A.H. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems 1903; Collins J.C. Critical Essays and Literary Fragments 1903; Firth C.H. Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 1903; Lang A. Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts 1903; Lee S. Elizabethan Sonnets newly arranged and indexed 2 vols; 1904; Pollard A.F. Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 1903; Pollard A.W. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse 1903. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Constable, hardcover
188924293J W Arrowsmith Bristol 1889. 8vo. First Edition Second Issue with very numerous illustrations throughout; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker in custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 3pp publisher's advertisement at end; original endpapers not preserved. Carter & Sadleir v6; Muir 'Points' p.133; Sterling 498. J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, hardcover
183341066J. G. & F. Rivington for SPCK 1833. 8vo. neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; full contemporary roan upper board blocked in blind back with five flat gilt bands second compartment lettered in gilt red sprinkled edges joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved bright crisp clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. THIS COPY CARRIES THE BINDER'S PLATE AND DATE STAMP May 1833 OF JOHN BIRD ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF AN ORIGINAL SPCK BINDING. Based in London's Hatton Garden John Bird was a designated SPCK binder; several examples of his work are held in the British Library. J. G. & F. Rivington [for] SPCK, unknown
193514837Oxford University Press Oxford 1935-1939. 6 vols. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with folding facsimile as frontispiece large folding facsimile 2 double-page pedigrees and tinted folding map; original maroon buckram gilt backs uncut a near fine set set. With uniform personal bookplate on front paste-downs and small relevant cutting mounted on front free endpaper of first volume. The set comprises: Vol. I: The Early Letters 1787-1805 1935; Vol. II: The Middle Years 1806-1811 1937; Vol. III: The Middle Years 1811-1820 1937; Vol. IV: The Later Years 1821-1820 1939; Vol V: The Later Years 1831-1840 1939; Vol. VI: The Later Years 1841-1850 1939. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE. NCBEL III 188. Oxford University Press, Oxford, hardcover
198536793Adolf M. Hakkert. 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Bumping to top corner of Volumes 3 and 4. Crease to top of spine of vol. 4. Minor discoloration to spines. Scholar's name to ffeps of vol 1 & 4 D. Gerber.; Ed. By the Istituto di Filologia Classica Bologna and Venezia and the Classics Research Centre Birkbeck College London. 1985-1990; 4 Volume Set COMPLETE; 1-4; 897 pages . 9025609120 . Adolf M. Hakkert paperback
59858Leiden Brill 1948 - 2003. Half cloth boards & wrappers. 1948/73 cloth; 1974/82 boards; 1983/2003 wrappers Lacking vol. 35 Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover
1991019628London: Macmillan Press 1991. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards foxing to lightly tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge and slight traces of storage. 309pp. This study was the first detailed account of Dylan Thomas's career and development as a prose writer commenting on his work in films on radio as well as his stories and letters. The chapter on 'Under Milk Wood' explores new literary and biographical sources. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Macmillan Press Hardcover
179728100Printed for T. Wilkins No. 23 Aldermanbury 1797. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. with woodcut frontispiece and 18 woodcut plates separate pagination for each of the three parts frontispiece and title mildly age-soiled some lighter age-soiling throughout rather heavier on a few blank margins neat nineteenth century inscription on front paste-down PART III WANTING LAST TWO LEAVES; nineteenth century full roan back with flat bands in blind neatly rebacked to style with old backstrip laid down wanting original label but lettering just legible in blind a firm crisp copy. 'Wherein is discovered I. The Manner of his Setting-Out; II: His dangerous Journey; and III: His late Arrival at the Desired Country. Also that of Christian's Wife and Children following after him'. The woodcuts are delightfully naïve as befits a mock-chapbook treatment. A VERY SCARCE EDITION ALBEIT WANTING TWO LEAVES. ESTC locates only 4 copies: BL; Birmingham; Quebec; Florida. Printed for T. Wilkins, No. 23, Aldermanbury, unknown
1740309758Druckts und verlegts Christian Ludwig Sympher Halle Christian Ludwig Sympher Universitaets-Buckdrucker Halle; Johann Jacob Bruemelburg Arnstadt und Leipzig; Gabriel Christian Rothe Copenhagen und Leipzig 1740. Hardcover kartoniert mit Leinenrücken und -ecken ohne Schutzumschlag Die weiteren Titel sind von 1745 und 1748. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Wurde nachträglich gebunden. Druckts und verlegts Christian Ludwig Sympher, Halle, Christian Ludwig Sympher Universitaets-Buckdrucker Halle; Johann Jacob Bru hardcover
19505599<p>This collection of humorous stories written before WWI includes Russian translations of works by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 American writer Richard Connell 1893-1949 and excerpts from Mark Twain's '<em>Autobiography</em>'.<br /><strong>Veniamin Briskin</strong> 1906-1982 was a Russian artist known for propaganda posters and cartoons. He was the author of Hitler's caricatures one of the first to appear in the Soviet press. Throughout his life he created cartoons for the military during the Civil War the Russo-Finnish War and World War II. After World War II he continued to produce propaganda posters and cartoons for <em>Voenizdat </em>the Russian Military Publishing House of the Russian Ministry of Defense.<br />This series of books from the magazine '<em>Sovetskii voin</em>' comprises Russian translations of stories by American authors published by <em>Voenizdat </em>the Russian Military Publishing House during the Cold War. These collections include stories not only by leftist or communist writers but also by politically neutral authors. In this case each story was accompanied by a special preface aimed at providing the correct interpretation of the texts. The series began publishing in the 1940s and continued until the dissolution of the USSR.</p><p>Libman # 898.</p><p>OCLC locates only one copy of this edition: in the Princeton University Library.</p> Voenizdat paperback
183066206Paris / London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green And Longmans. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1830. Hardcover. 15 volumes collected in two sizes. Stiff unmarked books bound in brick cloth. Gilt decorated leather spines with 4 raised bands marbled endpapers and ribbon marker. 1830 - 1837 are 5" x 7.5". 1838 - 1844 are 6.5" x 9.5" Moderate shelfwear mainly to corners. Moderate foxing to endpapers and reverse of some of the etchings but pages are bright and crisp. Up to 18 steel-plate tissue-guarded etchings per volume. Larger editions printed in Paris the smaller in London. The publication history of "The Keepsake" is complicated but these appear to be first editions. The foreword to the 1833 edition makes note of the newer larger size. No further printings are noted on any volumes. Links to the contents of each volume found on wikipedia. . Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green (And Longmans) hardcover
194442632Folket I Bilds Förlag / Stockholm 1944. Kein Schutzumschlag Hardcover Gut 1 - 50. Tausend nicht in deutscher Sprache/ not in german language/ Folket I Bilds Förlag / Stockholm, hardcover
1902218826Verlag von Carl Aug. Seyfried & Comp. München 1902. Hardcover Leinen 1902-1909. Zustand: kleine Beschädigungen Exemplare einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Blauer Buchdeckel Bild: auf Bank lesende Kinder von Mann mit Hut unterrichtet schwarzer Rücken. Verlag von Carl Aug. Seyfried & Comp., München, hardcover
This is a very good hardcover set of all five volumes of this historic sale. This collection was put together over sixty years and is considered to be the finest collection of antique metal transport toys ever assembled. Uniformly bound in dark red leatherette without dust jackets as issued, titled in gilt. The previous owner has written in hammer prices in very small numbers next to most lots. Also lacking the white front endpaper of volume one. These are sale catalogs for auctions held at the Bertoia Auction Gallery in Vineland, New Jersey. Volume 1, the sale was held on March 19, 20 and 21, 2009. Volume 2, the sale was held on September 25-26, 2009. Volume 3, the sale was held April 16-17, 2010. Volume 4, the sale was held on September 24-25, 2010. Volume 5, the sale was held on April 15-16, 2011. Many thousands of lots in the sale. All illustrated with color photographs. There is a section at the end of Volume 5 with lots of color photographs of the galleries previous sales and the attendees. 11" high X 9" wide, 250 pages, 253 pages, 251 pages, 253 pages,198 pages. A nice complete set with prices marked. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good hardcover copy bound in dark red cloth with title in gilt on the spine. Generally clean inside, but previous owner stamps 'Mark W. Brown Methodist Mission Peking China' on the title-page, and on the preface page. Also a few pencil or red pen marks or underlines to the introduction. The top right corner of text block bumped. The plates are all drawings. 2067 coins catalogued. No marks to the Description of Coins section (captions to the plates). 12" high X 10" wide, xv, 174 pages of plates, 36 page section 'Description of Coins'. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
1790034145London: J. Sewell 1790. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Eight volumes Vol.17 1790 Vol.18 Jun - Dec.1790; Vol.19 Jan - June. 1791; Vol. 20 Jun - Dec. 1791; Vol. 21 Jan - June. 1792; Vol. 22 July - Dec. 1792; Vol. 23 missing Vol. 24 July - Dec. 1793; Vol. 25 Jan - Jun. 1794. All half leather bound marbled paper covered boards leather spine labels and gilt lettering; title page frontispiece several engraved plates to each volume not all present in accordance with list of embellishments. Binding show various degrees of wear and handling but all have secure boards and joints please see image. Contents clean and tight endpapers do not appear to be original no inscriptions no annotation. A very good incomplete run. J. Sewell Hardcover
1953011811Tauton: The Wessex Press 1953. Book. Fine. Card Covers. 8vo 14 x 21cm. pp. v 24. Original card covers with paper blue title label to front cover covers fine with a little rubbing to edges and slight discoloration adjacent to the spine. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions. A fine copy. Scarce. The Wessex Press Paperback
Lundberg, Gunnar WBook in perfect condition Jacket torn. unknown
Gunnar W. LundbergIn Pristine Condition. unknown
17838557J. and E. Balfour Edinburgh 1783. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper neat contemporary initials on front free endpaper verso; handsomely bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf marbled boards with double gilt rules at back and corners back ruled in gilt to form six compartments second compartment with leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt to a floral spray pattern speckled edges expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a remarkably bright crisp clean and most attractive copy. With the errata leaf following Contents as is proper and the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of William Henderson and later nineteenth-century trade ticket of W&B Norton of Cheltenham on front paste-down. Bright crisp copy of the first collected edition of the poetry of James I 1394-1437 which includes THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF 'THE KINGIS QUAIR'. Usually ascribed to the year 1423 James I's masterpiece 'The Kingis Quair' is a vivid love-dream allegory composed in Early Scots and marks the outset of the golden age of Scottish literature. Often referred to as the first 'Scottish Chaucerian' poem it acknowledges the influence of the author of 'Canterbury Tales'. The work is transcribed from the only known MS Bodleian Arch. Selden B.24 foll.192-211 which itself is dated to 1488 or shortly after.The volume also contains the poem Christ's Kirk of the Green the editor's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of King James I and the Dissertation on Scottish Music. The editor William Tytler was the father of Lord Woodhouslee. SCARCE. NCBEL I p.256. J. and E. Balfour, Edinburgh, hardcover