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1996707708NY: Pantheon Books. 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Pantheon Books paperback books
199328065New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. Hardcover. 250p. review copy with slip laid in very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. AIDS fiction. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1882WRCLIT80178Paris: Chez Adam Pilinski et Fils 1882. 71pp. plus 48 leaves of woodcut panels. Folio 34 x 25.5 cm. Some dusting at the untrimmed edges some occasional spotting to blank versos faintly mirrored in images occasional tanning but a good copy enclosed in worn board portfolio. First edition of this facsimile presentation based on the copy in the Biblothèque Firmin- Didot. "Tiré à cent exemplaires non compris quelques exemplaires sur papier imitant celui de l'original. Un petit nombrè d'exemplaires sont coloriés." This copy appears to be printed on ordinary paper and is not colored. The first of eight blockbook facsimiles by the talented artist and maker of facsimiles to appear in this series through 1886. OCLC: 4650452. VICAIRE V:1119. Chez Adam Pilinski et Fils unknown books
19253347London: Jarrolds Publishers 1925. First edition. First edition. Thick quarto. Original white cloth with bold gilt-blocked and stamped Art Deco design by T. Sturge Moorevon front cover and spine. Limited to 500 Signed H.P.R. Finberg publisher No. 123. Preface by William Butler Yeats. Cover design exquisite illustrations and decorations throughout by T. Sturge Moore. One of the more impressive gilt stamped bindings of the period and seldom seen in fine condition. This without a doubt the finest copy we have seen of this book with no fading or browning to spine almost always seen. J. Taylor in "The Art Nouveau Book in Britain" 1980 has the following quote by T. Sturge Moore concerning the cover design: "The minor decorations are symbols: for the 'uncreated light' an unfigured circle; for the great renunciation a crucifix; for heaven-reflecting life a rose." Very fine. <br/><br/> Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
19951325422Lanham MD New York and London: University Press of America Inc 1995. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 158; VG-; navy blue spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth clean; strong boards; text block has minimal wear to exterior edges; ex-library with few markings inside; interior clean;. 1325422. FP New Rockville Stock. University Press of America, Inc hardcover books
1988004093London: Secker & Warburg 1988. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine first edition in stiff glossy cardboard wrappers with integral flaps of the author's first book a collection of poems. True first edition. <br/><br/> Secker & Warburg paperback books
1988102083London: Secker & Warburg 1988. First edition. Softcover. 85 pages. Thorpe's first book a collection of poems reportedly done in a printing of 1000 copies. A very fine copy of this paperback original in a very fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Thorpe on the title page in 1993. Uncommon. Secker & Warburg unknown books
2004Embry 159810HarperCollins 2004. Book Club edition. Offsetting from removed bookplate else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. HarperCollins, 2004. Book Club edition. unknown books
194627918London: Dent 1946. First edition. Cloth very good in dust jacket. <br/><br/> Dent hardcover books
2003915946NY: Morrow/HarperCollins. 2003. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Morrow/HarperCollins hardcover books
2003UBRAMRL00CCWWilliam Morrow c2003. Fine. Braver Adam. Mr. Lincoln's Wars : a Novel In Thirteen Stories. New York: William Morrow c2003. 303pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with abrasion to front panel. William Morrow hardcover books
2003UBRAMRL00LWPerennial 2004 c2003. Very Good. Braver Adam. Mr. Lincoln's Wars : A Novel in Thirteen Stories. New York: Perennial 2004 c2003. 308pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with textblock slightly curved; lower fore-edge of pp. 259-264 roughened. Perennial paperback books
2010Embry 134042Alfred A. Knopf 2010. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First U.S. edition. unknown books
1790549Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper "I R". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less than the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise one keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope they will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor." Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionary War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9-acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. 319 549. unknown books
1790319Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ".Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less then the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise on keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope thy will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor."Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionar War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9 acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. unknown books
201238415London: Portobello Books 2012. Hardcover. Very good. First printing. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed on the title page by Lydia Davis David Mitchell Tom McCarthy John Banville Nadeem Aslam Adam Thirlwell Etgar Keter Adam Foulds and Colm Tolbin. <br/><br/> Portobello Books hardcover books
200761253bdTuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press 2007. Fire Ant Books. Signed by the Author. Octavo softbound slick black & white photo. illustrated white wrappers xvi 212 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In 1939 to escape Nazi occupation 14-year-old Adam Broner and his older brother Sam left their home and family in Lodz Poland and made their way to the Soviet Union. Adam enlisted in the Red Army to join the fight against the Nazis but was sent to work in a Siberian coal mine instead when his nationality was discovered. After a bold and daring escape from Siberia Broner reached the Soviet Polish Kosciuszko Army joined the struggle against the Nazis participated in the liberation of Poland and rode victorious into Berlin in 1945. He later learned that his parents siblings except Sam and all other close relatives had perished during the war. The author emigrated to the United States in 1969 and earned a doctorate from Princeton University. In recounting his struggle for survival during some of the most dramatic upheavals of the 20th century -- the Great Depression Nazism World War II and the spread of Communism in Central Europe -- Broner reveals a life dedicated to the ultimate goal of freedom which he achieved through a combination of arduous effort and fortunate circumstance. The University of Alabama Press, (2007). Fire Ant Books. paperback books
19861323595Stockholm: Kungl 1986. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo; pp 255; Good; peach spine with black text; no jacket; cloth has slight rubbing to exterior; strong boards; text block has little wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; foldout pages at rear; interior clean; profusely illustrated; Swedish text;. Sweden; Furniture history at Gripsholm; Gripsholm Castle;. 1323595. FP New Rockville Stock. Kungl hardcover books
17641334674Paris: Briasson 1764. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes; VG; bound in contemporary acid-washed calf spines with two burgundy morocco labels each gilt titling and tooling; marbled endpapers; text block red; 1 leaf ad in volume 2 rear; JL consignment; shelved case 3. The first French edition was unauthorized the first authorized French translation would not appear until 1774. The 1774 translation was done by Blavet who published a letter from Smith in which Smith called Eidous's translation 'mortifying' a reaction which prompted Blavet to pursue his own attempt.;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> First appearing in 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments lays the ethical and philosophical groundwork for Smith's later economic work.;. 1334674. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Briasson hardcover books
19566124Leiden 1956. Paperback. Near Fine. 62p. Original wrapper. 25cm. Afrika Instituut-Studiecentrum Leiden. Dutch text. <br/><br/> paperback books
1976038752New York Etc.: Published for the International Institute for Strategic Studies Praeger Publishers 1976. 288p. original purple cloth two pages with a very slight bit of red ink annotation Praeger special studies in internatitonal politics and government. Published for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Praeger Publishers unknown books
199325857Berkeley and Sebastapol: Mina Press 1993. 66p. briefly inscribed by the gay Bay Area African American poet very good in wraps. Mina Press unknown books
1979157381New York: Abaris Books 1979. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 520 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of 29 Dutch and Flemish printmakers: Jan Miense Molenaer Pieter de Molijn Roeland Roghman Jan Martszen the Younger Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom Herman Naiqjncx Dirck van der Stoop Gerrit Chase Bleker Frans de Neve Leendert van der Cooghan Thomas Wyck Bartholomaeus Breenbergh Jan den Uyl Jacob van der Does the Elder Pieter Boel Jan Fyt Anthonie van Borssom Adriaen van der Kabel Ludolf Backhuijsen Jan Hackaert Theodor Roos Gillis Neyts Abraham Genoels Jan Smees Abraham Storck Johannes Melchior Roos Pieter Bout and Michiel Sweerts. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1986157384New York: Abaris Books 1986. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 471 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of 8 Dutch and Flemish printmakers: Jan Baptist de Wael Lucas van Uden Lodewyk de Vadder Cornelis Matteus Moyses van Uyttenbroeck Reinier Nooms called Zeeman Robert van den Hoecke and Albert Flamen. Includes a bibliography. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1980157383New York: Abaris Books 1980. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine mark from past label; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 348 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of 8 Dutch and Flemish printmakers: Jan Baptist de Wael Lucas van Uden Lodewyk de Vadder Cornelis Matteus Moyses van Uyttenbroeck Reinier Nooms called Zeeman Robert van den Hoecke and Albert Flamen. Scarce. Abaris Books hardcover books
