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1982130497New York: Farrar 1982. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects forty-seven stories selected by Singer from the over one hundred he had produced to date. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with just a touch of wear at edges. #130497 Farrar unknown books
1982241357New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
1982025917New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1982. 1st Printing. viii 610p. dj. Farrar, Straus, Giroux unknown books
1982255616New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 610p. cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Fine copy autographed by Singer.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1982249998New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 610p. cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Presentation copy 1982.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1982171484New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book club. About Very good in very good dustwrapper. Name and stamp on front endpaper stamp on next page; edges of cover/pages browned; edges folds of dustwrapper browned; edges rubbed. 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. Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover books
1982245562New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First. hardcover. very good-/very good-. 610 pages thick 8vo green cloth dust wrapper damp-stained along inner bottom edge; spine of book stained at top and bottom with text unaffected. New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux 1982. First printing. Very good -.<br/><br/> Inscribed in green marker below the half-title: "To Linda with greetings and admiration Isaac B Singer Dec 2 1982."<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
198235263NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1982. First printing. Large 8vo pp. 610. A nice copy in little chipped dj. Farrar, Straus, Giroux unknown books
1949WRCLIT76475London: Chatto & Windus 1949. Gilt cloth. Australian bookseller's stamp in corner of front pastedown endsheets and edges foxed but a good tight copy in somewhat foxed and modestly shelfworn dust jacket. "Revised and definitive" edition of the poems only based on the 1937 edition. Edited by Gordon Bottomly and Denys Harding with a Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. REILLY p.279. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1974WRCLIT76476London: Chatto & Windus 1974. Gilt cloth-textured boards. A bit of smudging along top edge otherwise a nice bright copy in price- clipped very slight yellowed pictorial dust jacket. The third impression of the 1949 "Revised and definitive" edition of the poems only based on the 1937 edition. Edited by Gordon Bottomly and Denys Harding with a Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. REILLY p.279. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1898274820New York: Dunlp 1898. hardcover. fine. 12 black & white illustrations one folding. 117 pages slim 8vo. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 crimson morocco marbled boards. New York: The Dunlap Society 1898. Limited to 260 copies with signature of Theodore L. De Vinne<br/><br/> Dunlp unknown books
1898134597New York New York: The Dunlap Society 1898. 1st edition Limited to 260 copies with signature of Theodore L. De Vinne. Hardcover. Ex-library with typical markings. Cover and edges worn inner hinge split and holding by 1-inch section 1st four pages loose but present limitation page frontispiece t.p. and list of illustrations. Occasional pencil highlighting lines in margins. A thief removed 9 of the illustrations. An illustration of an advertisement appears to have been a fold-out missing the fold-out. Green library portfolio and slipcase red cloth spine with brown boards gilt spine titles. 117 pp. 12 black and white plates 10 missing. Very scarce. The Dunlap Society hardcover books
1709WRCLIT65867London: Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1709. 824pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title dusty at edges with small snag in blank corner small discoloration at extreme fore- margins else a good copy. First quarto edition. A 16pp. printing in octavo appeared the same year with the same imprint. A pencil note suggests Sharpe was curate of Stepney. ESTC N5149. Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster unknown books
1992Embry 41269Farrar Straus and Giroux 1992. First edition. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First edition. unknown books
1992290106New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1992. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. New York: Farrar Straus 1983. First edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1992USINCER00EMFarrar Straus Giroux 1992. Fine. Singer Isaac Bashevis. The Certificate. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1992. 1st edition. 231pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
195439015Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1954. First edition of the first work in Asimov's acclaimed Robot series. Octavo original blue boards red topstain. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Light wear to the cloth near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Dust jacket design by Ruth Ray. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. "One of the classic presentations of the womb-city metropolis as mother which has haunted imaginations ever since. The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are the best books Isaac Asimov ever wrote" The Guardian. In 2004 The Caves of Steel was nominated for a retroactive Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1954. A television adaptation was made by the BBC and shown in 1964: only a few short excerpts still exist. In 1989 the book was adapted by Bert Coules as a radio play for the BBC with Ed Bishop as Elijah Baley and Sam Dastor as R. Daneel Olivaw. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1758641161758. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. Indirect Influences on the Development of Copyright Law Ralph James d. 1762. The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated. With Regard to Booksellers The Stage And the Public. No Matter by Whom. London: Printed for R. Griffiths 1758. iv 68 i.e.76 pp. Bound with D'Israeli Isaac 1766-1848. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. London: Printed for T. Cadell 1795. xxiii 1 226 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards rebacked and recornered gilt titles to spine marbled edges. Moderate rubbing to extremities minor gatoring to boards hinges starting later owner bookplate of George P. Philes to front pastedown pocket with nine leaves of bibliographical and critical notes by Philes to rear pastedown. A few cracks to text block moderate toning to text light foxing in places annotations and check marks in Philes's hand to some leaves other owner signatures J. Mitford and Chas. Wright dated November 1853 to front endleaf "By the ingenious Mr. Ralph" in early hand to title page of The Case. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine small inkstamp to verso of title page of The Case. Two scarce titles with an interesting association. $1500. First editions. Born in New Jersey Ralph was a versatile writer of literary works histories and political criticism. He began his career in Philadelphia where he associated with Benjamin Franklin. He traveled with Franklin to London in 1725 and remained there for the rest of his life. An author of some stature he worked closely with Henry Fielding and was one of the writers satirized in Pope's Dunciad. The Case of Authors is one of his most important and enduring works. It argues that the decline of aristocratic patronage has placed the writer at the mercy of the marketplace with negative financial artistic and intellectual consequences. Although it sold poorly it went on to influence literary criticism and the development of copyright law. It was reissued in 1762. Cited in works by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Babington Macaulay it also influenced the Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. It was a popular book that reached its fourth edition in 1828. Its author the father of the Prime Minister was a notable literary scholar and essayi. unknown books
187131902New York: W.J. Widleton 1871. Cloth edges worn. Bookplate of Alexander Eakin. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> W.J. Widleton hardcover books
1859UDISCAL00ECRoutledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. Good. Disraeli Isaac. The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors : With Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters And Memoirs for Our Literary History. London: Routledge Warnes and Routledge 1859. 552pp. Indexed. 12mo. Book condition: Good only. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped. The top edges of the pages are very lightly moisture stained. Pp. 419-430 are hanging on by a thread. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge unknown books
199166032New York: ROC 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An anthology of 22 original short stories including one by Bradbury himself as well as a tribute by Isaac Asimov. The other contributors include Richard Matheson Norman Corwin Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Gregory Benford Orson Scott Card and William F. Nolan. Signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ROC hardcover books
190099630London.: Isaac Pitman & Sons. Circa 1900. hardcover. very good with no dust jacket; shelf wear previous owner’s notes front paste down with date 1902 and notes on front free end paper. 16mo. Isaac Pitman & Sons. hardcover books
WRCLIT68039London etc: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons nd. 1742pp. Pebbled black cloth ruled in blind lettered in gilt. 1918 ownership inscriptions on both pastedowns binding a bit rubbed else very good. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons hardcover books
1960117780New York London: Thomas Yoseloff 1960. Octavo cloth. First edition. A hefty resource for studying this seminal nineteenth-century Yiddish author collecting fifty-four of his stories plus a forty-four page introduction. Some of the stories deal with traditional Jewish supernatural motifs including stories of the feats of the legendary eighteenth-century rabbi the Baal Shem Tov. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with closed tear at lower rear spine fold with old internal tape mend and tanning to rear panel. #117780 Thomas Yoseloff unknown books
192430573New York: Other. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. "The Romance of Petroleum". Original cloth very good condition. . Other hardcover books
