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198521857New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Sendak Maurice. 186 pages. 24 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. The adventures of Sharp-Ears the enchanting heroine of the author's classic Czech novel of human and animal relationships deftly poised between poetry and farce. Decorated color endpapers in animal motifs. Signed by Sendak on title page. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
198524656NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1985. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. 186pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux hardcover books
19853179.1NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1985. 1st trade edition Hanrahan A123. Green cloth binding. Dust jacket. F/NF tiny incomplete tear at tail of spine panel. 187 pp. Wonderful color illustrations by Sendak. 8vo. 24cm x 20cm. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1985104411New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Tesnohlidek and pictures by Sendak. Translated by Tatiana Firkusny Maritza Morgan and Robert T. Jones. A fine and tight copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket with a few small edge tears some minor soiling rubbing and a few spots. Still a very nice copy of this attractive book. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
198562719New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good. 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. 185pp. dark green cloth with gilt printing to spine. Spine ends gently rubbed remainder mark bottom page edges; otherwise Very Good in a Good dj just slightly toned with some scuffing/repaired tear to front panel. . Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover books
19851308242Farrar Straus Giroux New York 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Wonderful illustrations by Maurice Sendak. First Edition 1985 stated on the copyright page. Original price of $19.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York hardcover books
191352846Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1913. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; dark green cloth with titles stamped in white and large pictorial label mounted to front cover; viii2871pp with frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Dalton Stevens. Contemporary bookplate mounted to front pastedown gentle sunning to spine with light wear to extremities and some softening to spine ends and mild surface wear to pictorial label; contens clean with hinges sound; Very Good lacking the rare dustjacket. The fifth novel in Leblanc's series featuring Arsène Lupin French gentleman burglar and master of disguise first serialized in Le Journal in 1912 as Le Bouchon de Cristal. Though now more than a century removed from his creation the exploits of Leblanc's signature character are the basis for the French Netflix series Lupin starring Omar Sy.HUBIN p.249. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
188139727NY: Scribner's 1881. Authorized American edition. 8vo pp. 621. Appendix index. Preface and notes by M. G. Pallain. Frontis portrait. Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Cover slightly worn at edges a few pages carelessly opened o/w a VG tight copy. Scribner's unknown books
1956149781London: John Murray 1956. First edition. Softcover. Literary journal. Significantly this issue includes Peter Matthiessen's story "Lina" which was apparently never reprinted. Also includes contributions by Seton Dearden Francis King Maurice Rowdon and Desmond Stewart. A very good copy in wrappers with some slight wear. An early appearance for Matthiessen who went on to win the National Book Award twice. John Murray unknown books
1961012776New York: Praeger 1961. 148p. original cloth. Praeger unknown books
19616151961. HENNESSY Maurice N. THE CONGO: A BRIEF HISTORY AND APPRAISAL. NY: Frederick A. Praeger 1961. 8vo. black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. The story of the Congo from the earliest slave-state to Belgium's abdication of power. Signed presentation from Hennessy on the front endpaper: "To: Carolyn whose very considerable help is very deeply appreciated and whose friendship is valued so highly. Wm. Hennessy. May 1961." Very Good little toning endpapers; contents clean & tight; little edgewear & soil some rubbing front cover d/j. $75.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1901185739London: Gibbings and Company 1901. Hardcover. Vg All covers have general wear discoloration edge damage. Spine of vol 4 has some seperation. Bookblocks have age toning. Interior pages have age toning. Previous owners library sticker on inside front covers os all volumes. Volumes 234 Blue cloth boards with gilt/silver writing and decorative elements on front cover. Gilt/silver lettering and decorative elements on spine. Top edge gilt Illustrations. Gibbings and Company hardcover books
196876909South Brunswick NJ: Thomas Yoseloff. Near Fine. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This book is hard-bound in black cloth with silver stamping on the spine in a very nice dust jacket with light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. Overall Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. . Thomas Yoseloff hardcover books
1974270545Secaucus: Chartwell 1974. hardcover. very good. Illustrated throughout some in color. 285 pages. Large 8vo brown boards. Secaucus: Chartwell Books 1974. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Chartwell unknown books
2004170670Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club 2004. Hardcover. VG/VG. Gray boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. xxii 520 pp. BW illustrations. "This is the first publication in a single work of all known Chester punch marks and continues the tradition of the standard volumes of Jackson Grimwade Culme and Pickford. It is also the first time that the twentieth-century Chester marks have been published. It is produced in dictionary format in alphabetical order from 1570 the date of the earliest known mark to 1962 at which time the Chester assay office was closed. The authors both members of the silver society were given unlimited access to the Chester assay office records covering 1686 to 1962 and to the Chester Goldsmith's Company records dating from the 16th century." -Amazon. Antique Collectors' Club hardcover books
1929289316London: Heinemann 1929. First. paperback. fine. 8vo original brown cloth. London: Heinemann 1929. First Edition.<br/><br/> A sharp copy lacking dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Heinemann unknown books
19281241870Payson & Clarke Ltd 1928. Assumed First Edition. Small octavo; good/no dust jacket; blue cloth spine with red text and two triangles of red at the head; boards minor shelf wear and bumping; dime-sized stain to front cover; text block clean; toning at the edges; 216pp. 1241870. FP New Rockville Stock. Payson & Clarke Ltd unknown books
48090Buffalo: Railroad Trainmasters of North America n.d. Quarto bifolium. Opens to printed broadside 11" x 17". Printed in black and orange ink; text in four columns. Original folds else fine. Wartime polemic from the editor of the Railroad Workers' Journal arguing that the closed shop is tantamount to the "yellow dog" contract in reverse benefitting only organizers and not the rank and file. Undated but clearlyi a wartime production ca 1940s. Railroad Trainmasters of North America unknown books
198058600Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution; New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications 1980. 4to pp. ix 1 321 1; illustrated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in the dust jacket. <br/><br/> Smithsonian Institution; New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications unknown books
1991397531991. Wilkes Maurice V. The Clifford Paterson lecture 1990. Progress and research in the computer industry. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions A 334 1992. Without wrappers as issued. Fine. 173-184. 247 x 174 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. First edition offprint issue. A survey of recent technical progress in the computer industry and of the development of the relationship between the computer and semiconductor industries. Wilkes 1999 no. 147. Origins of Cyberspace 1058. unknown books
196811661Oxford: Clarendon. Very Good. 1968. Hardcover. Blue cloth fine; dust jacket slight wear along edges; ex lib; near fine; Pope Boniface VIII Medieval Education Gerald of Wales Dante and the Crusade Stephen Langton ; 8vo; Loretta Countess of Leicester. . Clarendon hardcover books
1919288833New York. : Mitchell Kennerley. 1919. . 1st Edition. Hardcover black cloth gilt titles. . Very good minus no dust jacket. . 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the author on the pastedown. Mitchell Kennerley. hardcover books
35095Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Illus. Edward J Detmold. NY Dodd Mead 1920. 192 pages clothbound very good condition no jacket. . Other hardcover books
35288Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Dodd Mead 1928 Illus. Herbert Paus. Very good condition no jacket. . Other hardcover books
1978025523New York: Harper's Magazine Press 1978. Quarto. offprint was given to educators. Copies appear on OCLC only at the University of Michigan. Contains illustrations by Maurice Sendak entitled "It must be" Bruno Bettelheim "Learning to Read" which clearly points out the banality and harm that comes from the Dick and Jane tradition. The copy at the University of Michigan notes: "an illustrated panel across p. 52ff with quotation from Sendak accepting the 1964 Caldecott Metal for his book Where the wild things are top p. 55 and with "Beethoven Quartet in F op 135--"It must be" bottom of p. 55/In the Child's mind a collection of brief essays on the growth of the intellect in the very young. The well-reasoned articles reflect why much of modern educational theory has led to a decline in thought and imagination in the minds of children who receive what is called "education" in the primary curriculum of today. A very nice copy. Harper's Magazine Press unknown books
