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1938biblio28<p>Significant collectible addition to Collections of Mark Twain works. It contains all the Mark Twain material to appear in the Golden Era during his sojourn in Nevada and California except "Curing a Cold." Illustrated paper covered boards black cloth spine with a printed paper spine label in dust jacket. Near fine condition inside; the dust jacket is edgeworn but intact.</p> George Fields hardcover
197415098Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth pictorial dust jacket. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket wear. First edition tight and attractive. YOUNG 3109. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1900SB15579Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1900. Shaken binding aged textblock else clean and tight; Top edge gilt; Embossed cloth with moderate silverfish depredation at the front and back board edges surface wear bumping to corners as well as to the head and foot of spine. 337p. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. L.C. Page and Company Hardcover
1993010005NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1993 first printing. 4to. 9" x 11 1/4" xxii384pp. 275 illustrations including 196 plates and 79 duotones. Dark gray cloth with embossed black titles gray endpapers. Rare images from the first century of photography 1839-1939. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1993. Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown
193533791Sheed & Ward New York NY 1935. 8vo. First Edition thus; brown cloth gilt back brown top a very good bright crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Printed at the Alcuin Press. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sheed & Ward, New York NY, hardcover
1990003270Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Sm 4to. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Clarendon Press Hardcover
19022221643<p>First edition "February 1902" second printing with "Manhattan Press" 474 W. Broadway New York. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth t.e.g. front fly leaf and all pages up to title pages have been removed; Volume II with purple pencil scribbling on page 83. Else very good. 2 volumes. No dust jacket.</p><p>From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume.</p><p>Cukor had contemplated a film based on Edith Wharton works.</p><p>Garrison A6 1b.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
116402Leiden Boston Brill 2012. XII178 p. Hardbound 24 cm Mnemosyne Supplement 344 hardcover
1994biblio11638<p>First edition first printing of volumes 1 to 4 in this reference guide to everything Sherlock Holmes. It references everything from The Sacred Writings in volume one to Cartoons Comics and Jokes in volume 4. Cerlox Bound. In fine / fine condition.</p> Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library paperback
188032771Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1880. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with black leaf pattern stamping. 419pp. Very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear; front inner hinge delicate but archivally strengthened. First edition probable first printing. BAL 9589. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
187733382Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Co 1877. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth with black and gilt decorative and pictorial stamping. xiii 502pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and a bit cocked with minor fraying at head and tail of spine; inner front hinge cracked but expertly archivally strengthened. Fairly tight and decent first edition of this Illinois fiction whose dedication page thanks "General U.S. Grant who was Colonel of the 21st Illinois Regiment while I was its chaplain." Delightful full-page engravings by Frank Beard. Crane was a Springfield preacher and this colorful novel depicts the rugged life of the Methodist preachers who traveled from village to village settlement to settlement preaching the gospel -- much as young Springfield attorney Lincoln traveled the judicial circuit trying cases in tiny rural villages. Interesting provenance the front pastedown bearing the plain red-printed bookplate "From the Library of / Ed Grabhorn / at the Grabhorn Press. Jansen, McClurg & Co hardcover
1988000715Farrar Straus and Giroux 1988. Book. Trade Paperback. Franzen'z first novel the dynamics in a Missouri town when an East Indian woman is appointed police chief. A SIGNED ADVANCE READING COPY VERY GOOD COPY. Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback
196011049New York: William Sloane Associates 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. 286pp. Very good/very good. Light jacket edgewear; funky light stain along gutter of rear endpaper binder's glue problem. A tight attractive first edition boldly inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Karla -- with love" signed as usual with author's first name only "Louis. William Sloane Associates hardcover
193710717New York: J.B. Lippincott Company 1937. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii 248pp. Very good/very good. Bookplate on front pastedown; minor jacket edgewear. First edition tight and attractive. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover
19794606Leningrad / New York: Aurora Art Publishers / Abrams 1979. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/very good. 4to 326 pages white cloth remainder mark on bottom edge. <br/><br/>Wealthy merchant Tretyakov's private efforts were to create a gallery for his nation. "We south to present the finest works from its collections works that mark the main stages in the history of Russian art and to acquaint lovers of painting with the individual styles and manners of the great masters of both the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods - Introduction." Aurora Art Publishers / Abrams hardcover
1933SB17788Philadelphia: Roland Swain Company 1933. Aged solid copy; Former owner's pencil signature on ffep else textblock clean and tight; Sunned spine and boards bumped and worn extremities; Spine cloth torn and worn; Lightly worn corners. 309p. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6 " - 7 " tall. Hardcover. Roland Swain Company Hardcover
190638057Clarendon Press Oxford 1906. 8vo. First Edition neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; handsomely bound in caramel boards vellum back tooled in gilt to an art nouveau design two leather labels tooled and lettered in gilt gilt top red silk marker a most attractive copy in publisher's de luxe binding. Clarendon Press, Oxford, hardcover
18162978Printed for John Sharpe Piccadilly by C. Whittingham Chiswick 1816. 16mo. with engraved and printed titles and 5 engraved plates some minor spotting; strongly bound in cloth boards morocco back gilt uncut original free endpapers preserved. A most attractive copy. Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, hardcover
199344722Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Light foxing to top of textblock and endpapers.; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages . 0847678075 . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
200536640Brill Academic Publishers. 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber.; This volume makes clear that even within the short period of their floruit archaic Greek trimeters underwent profound changes. The shift in thematography use of person and vocabulary reveals that iambic verse is a complex definable genre with all the dynamism that implies and with a traceable development. The various chapters examine the subject matter morphology and diction of the trimeters both within the genre in a diachronic fashion and in relation to elegy. The metrical inscriptions and later iambic poetry are also considered as the author ponders the rise of tragedy and the disappearance of serious iambus. This work is of interest not only to scholars of archaic lyric poetry but also of tragedy and sympotic practices.; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum 265; 6.5 X 1 X 9.5 inches; 214 pages . 9004145362 . Brill Academic Publishers hardcover
86088Leiden Boston Brill 2005. IX208 p. Cloth. 24 cm Mnemosyne Supplement 265 hardcover
195037072Dent 1950. 3 vols. 8vo. with frontispieces in photogravure original captioned tissue guards present titles in red and black and 33 fine plates in photogravure all original captioned tissue guards present; original green cloth upper boards blocked in blind gilt backs green tops a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper the wrappers mildly sunned at backstrips. Bright set of an edition first issued in 1911. Dent, hardcover
199137505Cornell University Press. 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear to book. Stapled review of book by Gordon M. Kirkwood signed by him tipped in. DJ spine sunned.; Myth and Poetics; 287 pages; Commissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century B.C. Pindar's odes have continued to resist interpretation by modern readers. In The Traffic in Praise Leslie Kurke offers an engaging new reading of the odes within their rich social context and poetic tradition. . 0801423503 . Cornell University Press hardcover
195742894New York: Random House 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with black lettering pictorial dust jacket. 371pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A handsome and tight first trade edition of the middle child in the Snopes trilogy. Later state with the misprint on page 327 and no "5/57" on jacket front flap. An exceptionally tight and bright copy. Random House hardcover
18925952Longmans Green 1892. 8vo. First Edition with photographic portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present some very light foxing mainly marginal; original pale green tweed cloth backstrip with printed paper label chipped without loss of lettering black endpapers uncut a remarkably bright crisp clean copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of R.Milne-Redhead and trade ticket of Beach of Salisbury on front paste-down. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Miller & Matthews B27.1 Longmans Green, hardcover
