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195019696Paris: Points 1950. First edition. Paperback. Good. The rare 8th issue of this literary magazine edited by Bisiaux and Vail. Notable for the inclusion of "Shades of Darkness Three Impressions" by a young Canadian writer named Mordecai Richler. His first published work. This magazine in good condition. Paper is toned with age. Covers are lightly worn and there are a few small chips and tears at the edges. A small stain affects the base of the first dozen pages or so. Still a reasonably sound copy and still well-bound. Points paperback books
191047219Portland 1910. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers embossed upper wrappers with gilt textured white leaves with categorical tabs printed in red and black held together by a red cord tie and stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Soiling wrappers upper wrapper with possible water damage tie a bit frayed and sunned some red and black ink markings - adjusting and adding menu items light soiling to some leaves as well as some faint age toning to edges. Overall a nice bright copy. 20 pp. unnumbered. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>"Railroad magnate Henry Villard financed the Portland Hotel and construction began in 1882 but his finances collapsed—in part because of the Panic of 1884—and the construction stopped for five years. With only the foundation completed the site became known as "Villard's Ruins" and the bodies of two murder victims were found there before construction resumed. George B. Markle Jr. began a campaign to raise local money to complete the hotel. He generated enough interest and subscribers to his plan among them Henry W. Corbett Henry Failing Simeon Reed and William S. Ladd to get construction started again. Later investors included labor leader Ed Boyce. The Queen Anne Châteauesque hotel finally opened in 1890 and had eight floors and 326 bedrooms.It had cost well over a million dollars and eight years to complete." wiki The hotel closed in 1951 and all the furniture was sold at auction. unknown books
50665Istanbul: Yeni Kitapçi 1935. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 62 2 pp. Very good; only very faint wear and discoloration to wrappers. First edition of this volume of poems by Hikmet with a restrained but clearly avant-garde-influenced wrapper sign by Ali Suavi. In this cycle of poems Hikmet portrayed individual persons from the public as well as his private life. Ali Suavi 1910 or 1913-1994 designed most of the covers of Hikmet's books. Little is known about Suavi who was a famous designer of books and later became known as a photographer. Nazim Hikmet 1902-1963 is considered the founder of modern Turkish poetry who transcended Ottoman versification and absorbed the influence of Russian futurist writers such as Sergei Esenin but above all Vladimir Mayakovsky. Aside from the "step-ladder" form of verse he shared with Mayakovsky his sociopolitical engagement as well as Esenin's love for the simple folk and his origins. Impressed by the 1917 October Revolution in Russia he resisted the occupying powers in Constantinple and fled to the countryside where he sought to connect with various socialist and libertarian organizations. In 1920s he traveled to Russia twice for extended periods of time where he studied in Moscow and was in close contact with Soviet Futurist poets. Upon his return in 1928 he was subject to imprisonment and harsh repressions including a ban on publishing but nevertheless garnered success with readers and created a prolific output while in prison. In 1938 he was sentenced to nearly three decades of jail but was released in 1950 and fled to Moscow exile in 1951 where he was a leading public intellectual and died in 1963. He was not published in Turkey until 1965 and remained nearly unknown in the West for much longer. See also: Saime Göksu and Edward Timms Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet. <br/><br/>As of March 2020 KVK and OCLC show only two holdings of the first edition none in North America. unknown books
605151"Aug Waterman". A Receipt for 205 ounces of gold deposited for refining July 13 1899. 12" x 5 1/2". Selby Smelting & Lead Co. 416 Montgomery Street San Francisco California. Very good. Provenance: from the estate of Senator J.P. Jones. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
634118 leaves. Small 4to attractive modern marbled boards red morocco lettering piece on spine. Wittenberg: C. Heyden 1619. First edition of this rare book which is considered by A.D.B. to be the author's most important scientific work; it is a careful record of the third of the three bright comets of 1618-19. Schmidt 1570-1637 was "one of the last of the scholars of Germany who taught the language and literature of Greece in the spirit of Melanchthon. Schmidt was professor first of Greek and next of Mathematics at Wittenberg. His principal work was an edition of Pindar with a Latin translation and a careful commentary 1616."-Sandys II p. 272. Fine copy. ❧ A.D.B. Vol. 32 pp. 27-28. Zinner 4785. hardcover books
1636D6036Rome: Typis S. Cong de propag: Fide 1636. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 230 x 170mm. xxiv 338pp. ii. Illustrated throughout with woodcut tables and charts of Egyptian characters and hieroglyphs. Contemporary vellum; intermittently browned occasional spots. <br/><br/>Father Athanasius Kircher was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 works most notably in the fields of oriental studies geology and medicine. He was heralded as possessing the secret of deciphering hieroglyphics and was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age. He had over 760 correspondents including scientists Jesuit missionaries and world potentates and wrote about an enormous range of interests ranging from optics to music from Egyptology to magnetism. Perhaps best known of his correspondents is Jan Marek Marci of Kronland 1595-1667 for sending Kircher a mysterious illustrated manuscript written in an unknown script famously known today as the Voynich Manuscript. In 1635 Kircher began to write his book Prodromus Coptus Introduction to Coptic Language and in the autumn of 1636 the book was printed. Kircher saw the ancient languages as an essential foundation for any pious philosophy. Kircher envisioned Rome as a unique center within to unlock the mysteries of Hermetic knowledge inscribed on the obelisks. The project of restoring Egyptian wisdom entailed nothing less than an effort to renovate the lost arts of communication that linked divine and human languages. Unfortunately while in other disciplines he made valuable discoveries his explanation of hieroglyphs was absolutely incorrect. We can probably explain it by his passion that might have sometimes blinded his reasoning. Yet Kirchers Prodomus remains an important study from a most respected scholar. Brunet III 668; Caillet II 5790. Typis S. Cong de propag: Fide hardcover books
P5946Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo komiteta partii sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov 1917. Octavo 20 Ã 14 cm. Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Wrapper lightly chipped else about very good. Political Literacy for Post-Revolutionary Russia. Scarce brochure that seeks to educate a literate but not highly educated audience about the program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party SR breaking down basic principles of capitalist and socialist systems and proposing a program of action. The party won the Constituent Assembly election of 1917 November 25 1917 generally considered to be the first free Russian election taking about 40% of the popular vote. SR was the primary competitor of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party RSDLP the party of Lenin until its name was changed to the All-Russian Communist Party following the October Revolution of 1917. While the Bolshevik RSDLP won the majority of the vote in urban centers and from soldiers on the western front they lost the overall election to the SRs whose candidate list had been printed prior to the split between the left and right wings of the SRs with the left wing forming a coalition with the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks had hoped that this election would provide them the popular mandate to govern. Lenin criticized the Constituent Assembly saying that it failed to represent the Russian people because the ballot had not indicated the split between the SRs right wing and the pro-Bolshevik left. SRs held power for two weeks before the Bolsheviks disbanded the Assembly and gained the upper hand. As ideologically hostile literature as well as documentation of an alternative path of development after the February Revolution the publications of the Socialist-Revolutionaries were subject to destruction in the years after the October coup. KVK and OCLC only show copies at LOC Stanford Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and State Library of NSW Sydney. unknown books
15526331Venice: Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari 1552. First edition. Very Good/The title promises four sets of "questions and their solutions" and indeed that was the plan. Lando wrote Q&A on four topics: medical questions including dietary and aging functions ethical questions questions about religion and questions about love and sex. It was the love and sex part that raised the eyebrows of the censors and neither Lando or his publisher Giolito could get permissions to print it as the book was going to press. As Giolito himself declares in a postscript to the reader: "I promised you four books of doubts but since I haven't yet been granted a license for the doubts about love I'm forced to give you only three. Be well and enjoy as much of the book as I could give you." The license came later and the text appeared in later editions. This unfinished text with its publisher's apology represents a fascinating birthmark on the 16th-century book trade. The Q&A ranges over hundreds of topics calling upon the author's medical training much involved with the humors and temperaments associated with various organs objects and creatures his classical erudition and his training in the Augustinian order. The three sections together provide comprehensive insight into 16th century medicine and popular religious and moral thought. The odd matter of two versions of the dedication page leaf A ii is not easily explained. We suspect with some justification that Lando sought patronage for the same work in different locations knowing that Protestant Germany rarely spoke with Catholic Italy and vice versa. He might have found different backers in different markets. We know that to be the case with at least one other book of Lando's the "Sermoni Funebri" 1549 where some copies are dedicated to Fugger and others to Niccolo degli Alberti. That case is known and recorded. We find no recorded instance of the alternate dedication of "Quattro libri dei dubbi" to Fugger and no record of the author being identified by signing the dedication letter in any other copy. The "Quattro libri de dubbi" was quickly translated into French Lyon 1558 and by William Painter into English entitled "Delectable demaundes and pleasaunt questions with their severall aunswers." 1566 and again 1640. . Octavo 16 cm; 318 2 pages. Woodcut device on title page and on last page. Woodcut initials. Bound in recent vellum in period style yapp edges titled in ink on spine. Early 20th-century bibliographical note bound in. Marginal annotations in contemporary hand. Leaf a ii the dedicatory letter present in two states the cancel addressed to Johann Jakob Fugger closing with Lando's name and the original leaf addressed to Christoph Mielich and not signed as usual. Small perforation in the cancel affecting a word. Occasional light stains darker on last leaf. References: Bongi I 368; Melzi II 391; BM Italian 377 1556 ed.; Fontanini II 117. Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari hardcover books
2008UGOLQUE00LAWQuercus 2008. Fine. Gold Claudia. Queen Empress Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great. London: Quercus 2008. 254pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and subtle rubbing. Quercus hardcover books
19751323225Brussel: Arcade 1975. Hardcover. Quarto; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black print; Slipcase in red cloth mild shelfwear but clean and strong; DJ has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Boards in red cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Text in Dutch; 469 pages frontispiece illustrated color and b&w plates. Shelf: Renaissance & Italian Art<br /> <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1323225. FP New Rockville Stock. Arcade hardcover books
19376594New York: International Publishers 1937. Hardcover. viii 252p. very good first edition in blue cloth boards and unclipped edgeworn and toned dj. Selections from Fox's historical critiques a memorial volume for the prominent British writer killed while serving with the International Brigades. International Publishers hardcover books
199127846Nashville: Battery Press 1991. Hardcover. Very good. vii 202pp index; maps. Very good hardback in a jacket that is just a bit sunned on the spine. Previous owner's blindstamp on front free endpaper else internally fine. <br/><br/> Battery Press hardcover books
19517255Accra 1951. Paperback. Good. 64p. Original wrapper. 33cm. Minor cover wear and browning. <br/><br/> paperback books
186364926Austin TX 1863. 4to. One page approximately 125 words in part: "Gents I am as a military board constituted by the authority of the state submitted to me for sale . thirty four United States Bonds Texas Indemnity with coupons attached . and I sold the same about the 10th of January 1863 to James Thorpe of the state of Louisiana for 85 cents on the dollar in Confederate notes . handed over to you with this report." Murrah a native of Alabama eventually read law and settled in Texas in the late 1840s opening an office in Marshall for his practice. He served in the Texas house before the war then in administrative offices before succeeding Lubbock as Governor in November 1863. Fleeing Texas at the end of the war he died in Mexico in August 1865. Very good. Folded for mailing. 11144. <br/><br/> unknown books
199920398NY: HarperCollins Harper Trophy. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0064407675 . Illustrations by Brett Helquist. First printing. Very slight edge wear to the spine ends else fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . HarperCollins (Harper Trophy) hardcover books
200126672NY: HarperCollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0060287101 . Illustrated by Renee Graef. Second printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins hardcover books
1969132475London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1969. Collection of 8 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1968 Spanish-American film. <br/><br/>Set in the Mexican jungle about a soldier who involuntarily steals a bevy of diamonds and the ensuing chase across the country with the syndicate police a gangster and a scheming girl complicating his escape to the border. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Some stills with a few light creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
19988116Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1565122135 . First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill hardcover books
1998121220Moskva: Pamyatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli 1998. Hardcover. VG clean and tight but museum ex-lib. copy. Peach decorated boards with Cyrillic lettering; 219 pp. with 55 color and bw illustrations. Text in Russian. Russian chapbooks from the 17th to 19th centuries. Lovely illustrations and thorough text. Pamyatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli hardcover books
18681375640th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED265. 1868. 166pp Disbound persistent light dampstain. Good. HED265. unknown books
1938312786N.p.: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman 1938. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White printed wrappers stapled. Very good. Some minor wear. Green quarter morocco slipcase. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July 1938 by a party of six who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen comprising: Evan A. Evans Louis M. Hanks Roy F. Tomlinson Theodore G. Montague William S. Kies and George I. Haight to whom authorship is attributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The last page of text records their catch by weights. Rare. Wetzel p. 171 tentatively ascribed to William Kies. "A rare work."; Bruns K-45 not seen; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 105. OCLC 2 copies Princeton Wisconsin Historical Society Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman] unknown books
1963209883New York: Dial 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good plus Bottom spine end bumped. Former owner's name on front end paper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Dial hardcover books
196478955London: Secker & Warburg 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with minor sunning to the spine. A novel of Manhattan. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
196436237London: Secker & Warburg 1964. 1st UK edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG slight cock/VG spine panel sun-tanned. 318 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Secker & Warburg hardcover books
19902760BOSTON HOUGHTON 1990 1990. SIGNED BY GOLD FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. F. BOSTON, HOUGHTON, 1990 unknown books
