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1862023031London: Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen 1862. With an illuminated half-title a title page and 36 illuminated pages all edges gilt original blue embossed cloth richly decorated in gilt on both covers and on the spine just slightly worn at corners and head and tail of spine probably recased with new endpapers . Cloth. Very Good. Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen Hardcover
20003115253New York: Aperture. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0893818941 . First American edition. SIGNED by Sebastiao Salgado on half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. 111pp. 10" X 13" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages . Aperture hardcover
17-2570Paris: Graphique de France 1991. Large format color print poster 23†x 23â€. Very Good. Minor rubbing at bottom edge not affecting image. Paris: Graphique de France, 1991. unknown
15-8670San Francisco CA.: Press in Tuscany Alley 1972. Broadside. Folio. Letterpress On Laid Card Stock with Deckled Edge Very Good with two creases. Illustrated. "J & A" possibly refers to Joyce Quyle Philter Press and Adrian Wilson. [San Francisco, CA.: Press in Tuscany Alley, 1972]. unknown
2004RALDCAT00tmGreen Cat Press 2004. Fine. Aldiss Brian W. The Cat Improvement Co. Broadside. Eddington design Patrick. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2004. #84 of 85 printed on white paper. Illustrated. 15 x 37 cm on 28 x 47 cm white paper. Broadside. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Signed by Aldiss and Eddington. Green Cat Press unknown
1966002943Leigh-on-Sea England: F. Lewis 1966. 1966. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. 4to. 48 pp. followed by 65 plates with black and white illustrations. Bound in full red cloth title stamped in gilt on cover and spine in red dust jacket printed in black. Translated from the French by C. Magdalino. Very Good internally clean and crisp binding tight bump to upper edge of front cover minor rubbing and wear to extremities in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to spine creasing and wear to extremities. Lovely copy. <br/><br/> F. Lewis hardcover
19506562London: The Hogarth Press 1950. First Impression. Hardcover. pp. 223 1. Small 8vo. measuring 8" x 5.25". Bound in original burgundy cloth over boards gilt lettering to the spine publisher's topstain. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities light bumping to the spine ends. Neat period ink name to the upper-right margin of the ffep contents otherwise without blemish with clean and unmarked pages and firm sound binding; very good and housed in its original distinctively-illustrated price-clipped dustjacket showing some light wear along the edges of the panels now housed in protective mylar cover. Overall very good. <br/><br/>See Kirkpatrick 4th Ed. Citation No. A30B. The Hogarth Press hardcover
2008BA22206010057Course Technology 2008-08-27. Paperback. Very Good/None as issued. 9x7x0. INCLUDES SEALED DVD. Clean solid copy with unmarked text. Cover has moderate surface and edge wear. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. Course Technology paperback
1952041460New York: Random House / New Directions 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. One Of 684 Copies Distributed With A "New Directions" Label Over The Publisher's Name On The Title Page. 335 Pp. Black Cloth Spine Orange Boards Stamped In Blue With Blue Endpapers. First Printing. Fine No Wear Tiny Rubs At Bottom Edge Of Tips And To Front Board Near Spine No Other Rubbing Or Wear Some Fading To Blue Topstain. Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped Immaculate No Wear A Faint 3/8" And Another 1/8" Damp Spot On Spine With Slight Darkening To Spine No Chips Or Tears Etc. <br/> <br/> Random House / New Directions hardcover
197824945St Paul MN: Truck Press 1978. A lovely copy of the 1978 1st edition limited to 70 copies each signed by Philip Gallo and each "printed on Arches and printed and bound by hand at the Hermetic Press in Miineapolis". Tight and Fine in its cloth-backed mocha boards. Square 16mo wonderful letterpress alphabet designs. Truck Press unknown
19573045London: William Heinemann Ltd 1957. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red buckram spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Inscribed in blue ink to title page: "For my very dear Wallace From Tiluace sp formerly Klipso - A.K.a Pamela February 21st '57". Else clean tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: gently soiled and rubbed edgewear. Near fine/ very good A smart copy of Pamela Frankau's own favourite of her novels which interrogated grief and faith affectionately and intriguingly inscribed in the year of publication "For my very dear Wallace". The Bridge is dedicated "To M.W.: 'with ease and affection'" Frankau's lover the celebrated Anglo-American Shakespeare director Margaret Webster. The novel also features a nod to a previous lover and her fellow ATS officer Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord in the masculine Valentine Brooks who "looked like Charles the Second when she laughed; black curls grape-bloom eyes and white teeth" and took "Linda into her arms with a man's embrace; he David the protagonist thought that Linda rather liked it." Known as Vernon Whitefoord sponsored Frankau's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1942; she died only two years later. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1913525074.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
20092090202118101263Potto shuppan 2009. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Potto shuppan paperback
10426Provo UT: Tryst Press 2011. Full Leather. Fine binding. Quarto. 32 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 160 copies this copy out of series. Bound by Katy Starr-Baum in tan goatskin; textblock is sewn on meeting guards with hand-embroidered silk endbands; binding with Hebrew lettering made up of hand-tooled gold dots which extend to the top edges of boards and headcaps; edge-to-edge hand-painted doublures and free endpapers. Housed in clamshell box. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A lovely book by Robert Buchert at his Tryst Press printed on purpose-made paper by the printer with a barley ear watermark and in Buchert's Psalter type. The colophon reports that this is the first book employing Buchert's typeface. Many in-text woodcuts some full page embellish the book. Here beautifully bound in a meaningful way by Starr-Baum who having over the course of a few years learned of her Jewish roots and converted to Judaism like Ruth that first convert before her. The Hebrew rendered in gold on the binding reads in the King James version: "And Ruth said Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge: they people shall be my people and they God my God; Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also if ought be death part thee and me." Starr-Baum has been binding books for more than 20 years and is among the most recent recipients of the Fine Binding Diploma of the elite American Academy of Bookbinding. Tryst Press unknown
2016x-1939561353JewishGen Inc. 2016. Hardcover. New. 408 pages. 8.50x0.94x11.00 inches. JewishGen, Inc. hardcover
2007003386Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press 2007. Hardcover. Very Good . Large 8vo. 192 pp. Bound in half red cloth and illustrated boards stamped in gilt on covers and spine. No dust jacket as issued. Profusely illustrated. Very Good internally bright and clean gilt on front cover is scuffed and rubbed tight clean copy. <br/><br/> Princeton Architectural Press hardcover
2001008743New York : G.P. Putnam's 2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 353 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780399146435 9780399146855 9780345457370 9780965164795 9780804114981 0399146431 0399146857 0345457374 0965164799 0804114986 ; OCLC 44883576 ; LCCN 00062673 ; LOC No PS3570.A48 B6 2001 ; yellow and brown cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart secrets she cannot tell her daughter yet hopes she will never forget. Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past its deepest wounds its most profound hopes. --Source: Publisher ; Amy Tan is the bestselling author of Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life Saving Fish from Drowning The Backyard Bird Chronicles and two children's books The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2001. hardcover
1523352493.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19993234London : Pavilion 1999. 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 160 pp. : color illustrations ; 25 cm. ; OCLC: 41419770 ; OCLC: 60152438 ; ISBN: 1862051445 ; purple boards with silver lettering in color pictorial dustjacket ; "With branches in Paris Brussels Copenhagen and London the Blue Elephant group are among the most successful Thai restaurants in the world. Serving Royal Thai Cuisine -- a lighter more refined version of traditional Thai cooking -- the restaurants pride themselves on the authenticity of their menus. Their dedication and expertise is evident in evident in such superb dishes as aromatic Nam Prik Ong a dip of minced chicken with red curry paste and tomatoes served with crisp vegetables Mud-Cha Chom Tarn steamed rainbow trout with lemon grass tomatoes and basil and vegetarian specialties like Thod Man Kao Phod sweet corn cakes. For all their sophistication the blue Elephant recipes produce dishes of exquisite lightness that are surprisingly easy to prepare. This splendid cookbook is complete with information on ingredients and abundant color photos that capture the unique freshness and delicacy of Royal Thai Cuisine." ; VG/VG <br/> <br/> London : Pavilion, 1999. hardcover
199925475Aldershot England/Burlington VT: Scolar Press/Ashgate Publishing Co. 1999. cloth hardcover in dust jacket. text on dj spine sun-lightened. else clean. no writing markings labels. any evidence of handling falls into the negligible range. no tears clips chips. tight binding. great copy.; 95pp. 38 color plates numerous b/w illustrations. covers prints posters commercial graphics books designed illustrations bookplates. hogarth press material. introduction by james beechey. foreword by angelica garnett. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Scolar Press/Ashgate Publishing Co. Hardcover
004310Antique Collectors' Club 176 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. Attractively reproduced articles originally published between 1893-1895. All manner of art and arts & crafts are described and examined along with art nouveau illustrations illustrations of ceramics furniture buidings and more. We are tempted to color the fabulous art nouveau illustrations only tempted. Clean throughout; tight crisp binding; about as new. Card Wrappers softcover. Fine. 4to. Antique Collectors' Club Paperback
36848Easthampton MA: Cheloniidae Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 21 of 100 xxi/c copies in the deluxe edition signed and numbered by illustrator and book designer Alan James Robinson. There were also 26 copies bound in quarter leather. This magnificent book was undertaken by the press as a celebration of its tenth anniversary. It is one of the great achievements of Robinson's Cheloniidae Press one of the most respected American private presses. Founded in 1979 the press went through several incarnations during its existence. The constant throughout was the artistry of Alan James Robinson who became famed for his superlative wood engravings and etchings of animals birds the sea and more. The original text for this edition was written by Arthur F. Kinney who was then the Thomas W. Copland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts and an extensive publisher and lecturer on Shakespeare. <br /> <br /> From the prospectus: this book "focuses on popular bird and animal lore and the way Shakespeare turns it into lines of haunting and indelible beauty by describing the familiar and unfamiliar ideas about many creatures and by showing how Shakespeare used these ideas to shape character and plot in his plays.Shakespeare's imaginative use of observed detail and magical fantasies is matched by the intricate and mysterious wood engravings of Robinson."<br /> <br /> Beautifully bound by noted binders Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton in full rust morocco with the title stamped in gilt on the front panel within a blind rule at the outer edge of the covers raised bands and leather hinges. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings depicting the birds and beasts found in Shakespeare's plays and poems plus two portraits of the Bard: one etching and one wood engraving. The book is accompanied by an additional suite of 56 signed and numbered prints from the illustrations. There is also an original watercolor of a Barnacle goose that is not known or called for in the prospectus. They are housed in a linen covered portfolio. The prospectus is also included. There are beautiful hand marbled endpapers by Faith Robinson. The book was printed on special Cheloniidae Rag paper carrying the press watermark that is the exact size of the First Folio of 1623. The type is Centaur and Arrighi set by M&H Type in San Francisco with additional hand composition by Arthur Larson. The book was letter press printed by master printer Harold Patrick McGrath. Housed in a custom clamshell box in near fine condition covered with beige linen with a brown leather spine label. The book is In fine condition. Book is 10.5 x 16 inches. Box is 11 x 17 inches. iv 87 single fold pages. PRI/102423. Cheloniidae Press hardcover
Z1-I-018-01613RIBA Publishing. Used - Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. RIBA Publishing unknown
Z1-F-037-02163RIBA Publishing. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. RIBA Publishing unknown
2015110960RIBA Publishing. New. 2015. Paperback. 1859465730 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . RIBA Publishing paperback