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1975103335New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1975. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. "In the third age of human history after the Monster had divided the world into two separate histories another Orpheus lives through the ancient myths." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 238. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #103335 W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
195022640London Toronto Melbourne Sydney Wellington: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1950. Octavo cloth. First British edition. The author's second novel. "Life in an occupied city during the 'Third World War.'" - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 83. Reginald 05450. A near fine copy in about good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and several long tears in rear panel with internal tape reinforcement. #22640 Cassell and Company Ltd. unknown books
1989126318Sacramento California: Crocker Art Museum 1989. Softbound. VG. Pictorial wraps 84 pp 49 color and BW plates plus additional images. Published for the exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Sacramento CA September 16-October 29 1989 and the Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach CA November 24 1989- January 28 1990. Crocker Art Museum paperback books
1929030442London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons 1929. Harmonizations by Geoffrey O'Hara and Oscar O'Brien. xxii 105p. music original cloth. Reprint of the 1927 first edition. J. M. Dent & Sons unknown books
1959019540London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 226p. b/w illus. original blue cloth slightly frayed at head of spine ex libris. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
19791318525New York: Crescent 1979. Hardcover. Quarto; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has edgewear small tears at spine ends shelfwear; Boards in purple cloth with gold print peripheral toning else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 93 pages illustrated color. 1318525. FP New Rockville Stock. Crescent hardcover books
19949022167Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1994. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
1961026343London Etc.: Thomas Nelson And Sons 1961. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. xxiv 268p. colored and b/w illus. dj. Thomas Nelson And Sons unknown books
1994133436London England: Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1994. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. cxii 1114; vi 10091; vi 1352 pages. 3 Volumes. Edited with introduction and appendices by David Wormsley. Table of contents list of abbreviations introduction note on the text acknowledgments selecte further reading appendices. Index in Volume III. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press unknown books
193956508Toronto: The Ryerson Press. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. Inscribed by the Author; red cloth boards with gilt stamping are toned spine is sunned otherwise contents are clean and very good with illustrations. . The Ryerson Press hardcover books
40925Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Bradenton Florida: Tradition Ink September 1986 First Printing. oversize paperback 207 pages inscribed by the author on the front cover of the book; Very Good. . Other hardcover books
26382GIBBON Edward. GIBBON'S JOURNEY FROM GENEVA TO ROME. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1961. 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. Frontispiece xxiv ii 268 pages 11 plates. Second impression. In 1764 Edward Gibbon made a leisurely trip with William Guise from Geneva to Rome. Gibbon kept a methodical journal in French recording every facet of their trip - countryside towns people churches palaces architecture and works of art. This journal reveals his tastes and interests and provides a portrait of the future author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bonnard as made a faithful reproduction of Gibbon's original French text. Go. unknown books
1913M9012New York:: E. P. Dutton 1913. 1913. 8vo. xv 296 pp. Tables index. Full gilt stamped red cloth; minor shelf-wear front inner hinge starting. Early ownership signature of Charles Russell Bardeen. Very good. First edition. Bardeen was the first Dean of the Wisconsin Medical School. E. P. Dutton, 1913. hardcover books
1930456408New York: Modern Library 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Volumes one and two of three only. Thick octavos. 1303pp. 1476pp. Blue cloth with red and gilt. Owner's name stamped on preliminary pages gutters cracked very good lacking the dustwrappers. Modern Library hardcover books
1959112359London: Cassell 1959. Octavo boards. First edition. Brief inscription by Fitz Gibbon to "John D" signed "Constantine" on front free endpaper. Miscellany of short fiction essays and "Paradise Lost" a three-act play. Mild bruises to lower corner tips some foxing to edges of text block a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some foxing to flap folds and several small internal tape mends. #112359 Cassell unknown books
1906117051New York: McClure 1906. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-293 294-296: blank note: last leaf is a blank original decorated green cloth. front panel stamped in white and blind spine panel stamped in white bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Stories told by an old Boer woman to her household especially her granddaughter Katje grim tales about life and death on the frontier. "The Vrouw Grobelaar believed most entirely in Kafir magic in witchcraft and second sight in ghosts and infernal possession in destiny and in a very personal arch-fiend who presided over a material hell when not abroad in the world on the war-path." Of the seventeen stories here at least six are supernatural: "The Dream Face" "The Avenger of Blood" "The King of the Baboons" "The Peruvian" "Tagalash" "The Sacrifice." Hubin 1994 p. 323. Day The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature p. 34. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Cloth rubbed at edges some staining along rear fore-edge inner hinges mended offsetting on pages 84-85 probably from an old laid-in newspaper clipping still a good solid copy. #117051 McClure unknown books
30026Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific the Northwest Passage of Today. 1st ed Indianapolis 1935 . 423 pages good condition in worn dust jacket. Inscribed. . Other hardcover books
1896292718London: John Murray 1896. Three Quarters Leather. Good binding. The set in two volumes in three quarter burgundy morocco over cloth; marbled endpapers. The joints are a bit tender especially the front joint of Volume I. It has just begun to separate but is still holding pretty well. Good binding. John Murray unknown books
194851422New York: Rinehart 1948. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 249pp. Minor sunning to spine of jacket and boards. Trivial shelf wear to boards else a tight clean unmarked copy. A few nicks and closed tears to top and bottom edges of mildly age-toned jacket. Very Good. Rinehart unknown books
19802309104Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Piranesi Gian Battista. A couple minor blemishes on boards. 1980 Full-Leather. The first of six volumes and part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 471 pp. 8vo. Original full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the complete Vedute di Roma of Giovanni Battista Piranesi with the Piranesi etchings of memorials and public works. The Franklin Library unknown books
1927WRCLIT30971London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Printed wrappers. Quarto. Covers a bit grubby three-inch split along the spine with a half-inch loss of paper from the bottom edge short tear to lower cover near head of spine but internally very nice with the prospectus laid in. First edition of the Irish poet's third book one of 460 numbered copies printed in France on Arches. The Le Doux illustrations are accompanied by a disclaimer emphasizing their tenuous relation with the text. The Grayhound Press unknown books
1926WRCLIT46885Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1926WRCLIT70816Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
009692New York; 1966: The Viking Press. First Edition. Quarto. 190pp. translated by Fitz Gibbon illustrated by Ronald Searle. Immediately recognized cartoons of Germans by Ronald Searle combined with and extended essay by Heinz Huber who also includes a dictionary of things German: People Places Things. Bound in black cloth spine lettering gilt. A handsome near fine copy in unclipped near fine pictorial dust jacket. The Viking Press unknown books
192726343London: The Grayhound Press 1927. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall bound wrappers. One of 460 hand-numbered copies printed on thick arches paper. A very good example. Poems by Gibbon with both color and black and white designs by Picart Le Doux. Remains of the publisher's printed belly band laid in. The Grayhound Press paperback books
