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1987104919New York: Universe Books / Coe Kerr Gallery 1987. First edition. Softcover exhibition catalog with 22 color plates. Essay by Warren Adelson. A fine copy in French style illustrated wrappers. Universe Books / Coe Kerr Gallery unknown books
1975422103Secaucus New Jersey: University Books Inc 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. New foreword by Leslie Shepard. Octavo. Foxing on endpapers and jacket flaps near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing. University Books, Inc hardcover books
1936103983New York: Workers Library Pub 1936. Pamphlet. 64p. wraps slightly soiled else very good condition 5x7.25 inches. With foreword by V.J. Jerome on relevance to American workers. Workers Library Pub unknown books
1918284469New Haven: Yale University Press 1918. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 58pp. The third printing of the American Edition with the publisher's dusjtacket. There is a small star remainder mark stamped at the top corner of the front endpaper. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
1964133022London: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft British script for the 1965 film. Based on the 1962 novel by Margaret Abrams and adapted by her for the screen. <br/><br/>A coming-of-age story about a young boy 7 years old who finds himself the uncle of a nephew his same age. <br/><br/>Director Davis began his career as camera operator on "A Taste of Honey" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Tom Jones." His best known film is "Clash of the TItans" 1981. Shot on location in Shepperton Studios. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated April 1964 with credits for screenwriter/novelist Abrams and screenwriter Davis. 107 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
200318n.p.: n.pub 201-. 60p. staplebound wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Reprint of an essay by the French theorist. n.pub unknown books
1988005599Barrytown: Station Hill Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First US edition of this scarce poetry book. Near fine in red wine cloth in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Translations provided by Pierre Joris. <br/><br/> Station Hill Press hardcover books
17294773London: Printed and sold by J. Roberts 1729. 2xvi18pp. Disbound. Title-page a bit foxed. Printed and sold by J. Roberts unknown books
19465231946. LEVINSON Maurice. THE TROUBLE WITH YESTERDAY. London: Peter Davies 1946. 8vo. red cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Levinson on the front endpaper: "To Ben Abramson- my friend through my friendship with Charles Lahr Maurice Levinson. August 1946." Levinson was a Russian Jew who was raised in an orphanage. Because of his Russian heritage he was not allowed to serve in the armed forces during World War II but became a member of the English Home Guard instead. He was also an artist and this is his first novel. Lahr was a German-born anarchist and also a London-based bookseller and publisher. He began the Blue Moon Press in 1931 and published D.H. Lawrence's "Pansies." Abramson was a well-known Chicago-based bookseller. Near fine; some wear tiny chips & several tears- one with an interior repair using clear archival tape d/j. An uncommon book especially with any kind of a presentation. $150.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
179441866London: Printed for M. Margarot; the London Corresponding Society; J. Ridgway etc. 1794. Engraved portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Later Red cloth. Some spotting browning nd offsetting of text generally light. A very good copy. Engraved portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Margarot was tried for sedition for having been a member of a group calling themselves "British Convention of the Delegates of the Friends of the People." He was a London merchant who shortly before had come up to Edinburgh. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years transportation. This is the report of the trial with each speaker identified. Printed for M. Margarot; the London Corresponding Society; J. Ridgway, etc. unknown books
1922130353New York: The Macaulay Company 1922. Octavo pp. 1-10 13-316 317-318: blank note: text complete despite gap in pagination; last leaf is a blank inserted frontispiece original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Translation of LE FORMIDABLE EVENEMENT 1920. Romantic adventure novel set after the ocean floor beneath the English Channel emerges and links Britain and France. During the chaos following the disaster bands of vicious criminals and looters roam the newly exposed land. "Wild sensational and incredible." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1299. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 51. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 135. Bleiler 1978 p. 120. Reginald 08758. Hubin 1994 p. 490. Two water strikes to top edge of text block touch of foxing to endpapers else a near fine bright copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket reproducing frontispiece illustration with light edge wear small closed tear and associated creases in front panel dust soiling to spine and rear panels and some internal foxing. Uncommon in jacket. #130353 The Macaulay Company unknown books
191169089New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good. 1911. Hardcover. NY: Dodd Mead & Co. 1906. 224 pages hardbound. Contents are bright and clean. Half leather and marbled boards. Spine is sunned with rubbed ends and corners. Contents bright and complete. . Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1911508731911. MAETERLINCK Maurice. THE TREASURE OF THE HUMBLE. London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. 16mo. brown pebbled full-morocco leather stamped in gilt. First Edition. Very Good few small stains ink presentation on front blank-page. $185.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191165452New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good. 1911. Hardcover. Gilt printed green cloth covers. 2241 pages. The spine ends and cover edges are rubbed and scuffed. The hinges are just starting. Otherwise this is a clean nice copy. . Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1934RSULTRA00DPEFine Arts Press 1934. Very Good. Sullivan Maurice S. The Travels of Jedediah Smith : A Documentary Outline. Including the Journal of the Great American Pathfinder. Santa Ana CA: Fine Arts Press 1934. 1st edition. 195pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled and rubbed extremities. Former owners' inscriptions and blind stamps on front endpapers and title page; endsheets' edges are lightly browned. Tight handsome copy. Fine Arts Press unknown books
2006Embry 191358Aperture 2006. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color photographs by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher. Aperture, 2006. First edition, first printing. unknown books
248823London: Hutchinson no date. Second. hardcover. very good. Translated by Arthur Chambers. With 10 illustrations and frontis. 216 pages. 8vo blue cloth gilt lettering on spine. London: Hutchinson & Co. Very good .<br/><br/> Hutchinson unknown books
195439091New York: Oxford University Press 1954. First edition of this early illustrated work by Maurice Sendak. Oblong quarto original cloth. Some rubbing to the extremities near fin in a very good dust jacket with light shelfwear. Rare. Maurice Sendak decided to become an illustrator after watching Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve. One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store FAO Schwarz. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. He spent much of the 1950s illustrating children's books written by others before beginning to write his own stories. Oxford University Press hardcover books
195418837New York: Oxford University Press 1954. Cloth. Very Good /Good . Maurice Sendak. INSCRIBED BY MAURICE SENDAK at a later date on the verso of the front free endpaper. A solid appealing copy to boot of the 1954 1st edition of this one of Maurice Sendak's scarcest titles. Clean and VG front inner hinge tender but still perfectly sturdy tiny former owner name at the top of the front free endpaper in a crisp price-intact $2.00 Good dustjacket with chipping along the spine including about 2" of loss all told at the crown and the base and several closed tears at the panel edges. 3 of the tears run a few inches in length the others are very small and negligible. And yet in spite of the issues to the very fragile dustjacket it remains attractive and presentable. Oblong octavo wonderfully illustrated throughout --with clear signs of things to come-- by the maestro Maurice Sendak. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
195376968Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Very Good. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This book is hard-bound in dark blue cloth with gilt stamping on the spine in a dust jacket with light edge-wear toning to the spine and with speckled damp-stain spots on the spine which do not affect the book. The covers show light rubbing to the spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with a fold-out genealogical table and an single page illustrated map of "Aquitaine." . The Clarendon Press hardcover books
200353978London: Oxford University Press 2003. First edition of Wilkins' autobiography. Octavo original black cloth illustrated. Signed by Maurice Wilkins and James D. Watson on the title page. Watson along with Francis Crick and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of DNA. Fine in a fine dust jacket. New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist Maurice Wilkins was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 along with Francis Crick and James Watson "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." "No intelligent person who wishes to know how the universe works should fail to read this book. Not only is it completely understandable to the layman it is also often very amusing" Arthur C. Clarke. Oxford University Press hardcover books
197925619New York: Everest House 1979. Later printing Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Everest House unknown books
2004Embry 140598Bear & Company 2004. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Bear & Company, 2004. First edition, first printing. unknown books
20131334830Lanham MD: Lexington Books 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 249 pages; VG/VG; red spine with white and yellow lettering; minimal shelf wear ex-library book with stickers on spine and rear board pages clean; shelved in Ancient Greece and Rome. 1334830. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Lexington Books hardcover books
1919019154London: Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co 1919. First Edition. Octavo. 4591pp. describing the honours awarded and the deeds performed by the men who earned these honours Bound in red cloth centrally stamped with the tank corps insignia in black spine lettering black. A good copy with fading to spine and edges some finger soiling to binding. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co unknown books
