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1918219480London 1918. unbound. 4 pages each two-page spread measuring 7 x 9 inches Compton House London December 7 1918. This humorous letter was written to his long-time friend -- literary and art critic Sidney Colvin -- in his typical run-on sentence style in part: ".My children gave me your book on Christmas day.I cut it and dipped through it eagerly since which I have read three chapters I found however the thickness of the book not its weight strained and hurt my thumb & first finger in holding it so that I could read it comfortably of an evening in one hand with my pipe in the other as I like to do and have taken it to a nice little Scotch bookbinder at Brighton to bind it in two vols. splitting it at chapter ten which is near the middle & where the chapter comes on a fresh page. I may add that I greatly appreciate the good taste and skill with which it is written." One horizontal fold; near fine condition.<br/><br/> English genre painter author and illustrator.<br/><br/> unknown books
1829022621Paris: Didot 1829. Disbound. Good . Includes all of Longus' Pastorals including Daphnis and Chloe. Preface in latin excerpt from Dunlop's History of Fiction appended to preface preface totals 62pp. Book is in greek with greek footnotes 154pp to which is appended un lettre circulaire de P.L. Courier sur les pretendues variantes du manuscrit de Florence in french pages 155-163. Then an Animadversionum in Longi Pastoralia Auctarium by Ludovici de Sinner 164-206 comprised of notes in latin and greek. 2 page index to page 208. 62 208. Light edgewear but otherwise unmarked. Disbound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Classics Latin & Greek; Inventory No: 022621. <br/><br/> Didot unknown books
193426077London: Boriswood 1934. First English Language Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original rust cloth spine lettered in yellow; 615pp. A touch dust-soiled; rubberstamp "hae" to half title and copyright page else About Fine. German novel portraying adolescent life during the depression of post-WWI Germany. Publisher's announcement laid in. Boriswood unknown books
188334119London: Field & Tuer & NY: Scribner & Welford 1883. First Edition. 8vo pp. vii 272 including index. With 2 chromolithographs and 4 lithographed plates.Review laid in. Ex library. cover little worn at edges and spine one hinge tender o/w VG. The early history of glass in all sections of the world based on the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Field & Tuer & NY: Scribner & Welford unknown books
26341WALLACE-DUNLOP M.A. GLASS IN THE OLD WORLD. London: Ye Leadenhalle Presse n.d. circa 1890. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. i viii 272 pages 6 plates 2 of which are in color. First edition. A nicely printed book on the history of early glass based on the collection a the present-day Victoria and Albert Museum. A very bright uncut copy. unknown books
35937Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London Field & Tuer Leadenhall Press 1882. 272 pages plates. Hardcover spine tips frayed generally good condition no jacket. . Other hardcover books
196126894New York: Pocket Books Inc. GC-768. Very Good. 1961. Cardinal Edition. Softcover First Printing. a good sound copy with only light wear a tiny bit of damage at lower rear hinge. Mass Market PB The first U.S. paperback printing of Werfel's epic of the early days of the Armenian genocide. Controversial to this day ask a Turk it was first published in the U.S. by The Viking Press in 1934 the original German edition had come out the year before and had no additional American editions until the appearance of this one more than a quarter-century later -- which suggests that the same forces of denial and suppression primarily emanating from the Turkish government were at play in the publishing world as in the motion picture industry where protests and pressure applied by the Turks prevented M-G-M which had owned the movie rights to the book since the 1930s from ever getting a film adaptation off the ground. One very bad one was produced independently in the early 1980s after M-G-M had divested itself of the rights and washed its hands of the whole thing. . Pocket Books, Inc. (GC-768) paperback books
1971WRCLIT72512New York: Macmillan 1971. Cloth. First edition American issue printed in Britain. Textblock slightly tanned as usual else near fine in very good price- clipped dust jacket. JOCHUM 359. Macmillan hardcover books
