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2022130443Ridinghouse. New. 2022. Hardcover. 1909932639 . IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - - with a bonus offer-- . Ridinghouse hardcover
195733570Meridian Books Inc. As New. 1957. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Rebound in library gray-green hardcover binding; else Very Good condition Tight to the spine. This edition marked: "GREENWICH EDITIONS Original first published September 1957 by Meridian Books Inc. " and then "First Printing August 1957". -- Three pages with improperly shaped corners from the original printer paper cut. -several pages have small brown discolored spots on fore-edge or in page margins near fore-edge -- with a bonus offer-- . Meridian Books, Inc hardcover
195757006Meridian Books Inc. As New. 1957. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Tight to the spine - 190 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Meridian Books, Inc paperback
200262674Gallery; Et Al. New. 2002. Paperback. 0920293565 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 64 pp. With 39 ills. 24 x 26 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gallery; Et Al paperback
2016124292I.B.Tauris. New. 2016. Hardcover. 178453529X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened with a bonus offer-- . I.B.Tauris hardcover
199748701ORION 1997. 1. softcover. Enzyklopädie der ungewöhnlichsten Sexpraktiken Fast 1400 Eintragungen und viele Illustrationen der ungewöhnlichsten Sexpraktiken! ORION paperback
2333394to. XII 463 2 X 523 2 XV 1 310 XXVI 797 18 faksimiler XIII 1 2 864 s. 6 faksimiler. Anden række: Første bind: XXXVI 4 306 307-726 CCLXXXVIII. Andet bind: LII 311 1 313-626 627-869 1 XVI 1 336 XII 2 337-532 533-585 s. Fint bundet i 13 røde granitolbind. Anden række bundet med originalt foromslag. . <br/><br/><em>Bind 1.: Norges Love ældre end Kong Magnus Haakonssöns Regjerings-Tiltrædelse i 1263. Bind 2.: Lovgivningen under Kong Magnus Haakonssöns Regjeringstid fra 1263 til 1280 tilligemed et Supplement til förste Bind 3.: Lovgivningen efter Kong Magnus Haakonssöns Död 1280 indtil 1387. Bind 4.: Indeholdende Supplementer til de tre foregaaende Bind samt Haandskriftbeskrivelse med faksimiler udgivet ved Gustav Storm. Bind 5II: Indeholdende Supplement til foregaaende Bind og Facsimiler samt Glossarium med Registre udgivet ved Gustav Storm og Ebbe Hertzberg. Anden række: Første bind. 1388-1447. I-III. Statens lovgivning. Kirkens lovgivning og vedtægter. Registre ved Oscar Albert Johnsen. Andet bind. 1448-1482. I-III. Statens lovgivning. Kirkens lovgivning. Udg. ved Oluf Kolsrud. Vedtægter. Udg. ved Oscar Albert Johnsen. Tredje bind. 1483-1513. I-III. Statens Lovgivning. Ved Grethe Authén Blom Kirkens lovgivning ved Grethe Authén Blom og Ferdinand Linthoe Næshagen. Vedtekter. Ved Gösta Åqvist og Halvor Kjellberg. </em> unknown
188840926Savannah Ga.: The Morning News Print. 1888. 20 360 pp. Frontis illustration of the First African Baptist Church and another full-page illustration preceding the table of Contents. Well-used with contemporary ownership signatures of "Mr. Cornelious Adams 1819 Reynolds." Inner hinges cracked and some loosening from binding scattered foxing. Text portraits of the pastors. In original cloth binding some spotting and extremity wear. Gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover. Good.<br /> <br /> "The oldest colored Baptist church in America" it was organized in January 1788 at "Brampton's barn three miles west of Savannah by Rev. Abraham Marshall white and Jesse Peter colored." Its trials triumphs schisms relations with their Caucasian co-religionists and biographies of its ministers are chronicled here by the Church's black Pastor Reverend Love. <br /> FIRST EDITION. De Renne 868. Work 405. LCP Supp. 1320. Not in Blockson. The Morning News Print. unknown
19964247IMAGE 02-05/1996. 1. softcover. Maloftege! IMAGE paperback
198920978London: Parkfield Entertainment 22nd August 1989. An original shooting script written by Philip Ridley for the award winning 1990 British biographical crime drama film 'The Krays' directed by Peter Medak. Signed by the lead actors. c.118 pages including top sheet and pink amendment sheets. A very good copy with some wear and finger marks as expected from a working document. With the ownership name of Elaine Thomas to the top right corner who was first assistant editor on the production. Signed and inscribed on the title page by the lead actors Gary Kemp Ron Kray; Martin Kemp Reg Kray; Billie Whitelaw Violet Kray; Kate Hardie Frances Kray; Tom Bell Jack 'The Hat' McVitie; Gary Love Steve. On release in 1990 the film spent a couple of weeks at the top of the UK box office earning Billie Whitelaw a BAFTA nomination for best supporting actress as well as scooping two Evening Standard British Film Awards best film and most promising newcomer. Parkfield Entertainment unknown
1924852T31London: Constable & Co. Ltd 1924. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None. A complete ten volume set of works by English novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Ten volumes. The Halliford Edition. Limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies. Written by Thomas Love Peacock an English novelist poet and official of the East India Company. Edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones Volume one has two letters from the editor Mr Brett-Smith taped to the front endpapers. This set includes: Biographical Introduction and Headlong Hall Peacock's first long work of fiction in which he assembles a group of eccentrics each with a single monomaniacal obsession and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. Melincourt in which an orangutan called Sir Oran Haut-Ton is put forward as a candidate for election as a Member of Parliament. Nightmare Abbey a novella which makes good-natured fun of contemporary literary trends and Maid Marian Peacock's fourth long work of fiction. The Misfortunes of Elphin a short historical romance and Crochet Castle following and assembled group of eccentrics in a similar way to Hedlong Hall. Gryll Grange which begins with a discussion around the dinner table of Mr. Gryll in which his friend the genial gourmet the Rev. Dr. Opimian holds forth on misnomers fish and the contemporary fashion for lectures. Poems a collection of verse including: Palmyra The Visions of Love and Fiolfar King of Norway. Poems and Plays further verses and some plays by Peacock including: The Three Doctors and The Deceived. Essays Memoirs Letters and Unfinished Novels. Critical and Other Essays includes French Comic Romances Bellini and Gastronomy and Civilisation. Dramatic Criticisms and Translations and Other Essays includes Chapelle and Bachaumont Demetrius Galanus and Aelia Laelia Crispis. In the original cloth binding. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the board. Fading to the spine of some volumes. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Very Good Indeed Constable & Co. Ltd hardcover
18104244France 1810. Hand-colored and color-printed stipple-engraved folding paper fan printed on recto of a single sheet backed in plain paper mounted on original wooden sticks the guards with narrow fillets of decorative bone near rivet the rivet pins with decorative glass inserts; the open fan leaf measuring approx. 169 x 450 mm. total fan height including mount 255 mm. The allegorical scene colored in watercolor and gouache; stenciled gold-printed acanthus border at top a gold border at top of otherwise blank verso. Slight wear along a few folds. <br /> <br /> A colorful woman’s fan probably produced in France for the Spanish market on the theme of choosing a lover or partner.<br /> <br /> The engraving shows at the center of a clearing in a wood a couple in classical dress the male figure representing wisdom in a helmet armor and cloak the woman with a yellow halo innocence bearing the caption “La inocencia guiada de la sabiduria para elergir un corazon†Innocence guided by wisdom to choose a heart. Flanking the couple are ten hearts some flaming five on each side each containing an emblematic figure with a one-word caption designating the pictured character trait. Those on the left are undesirable qualities e.g. a butterfly labeled Inconstancia and those on the right to which Wisdom is pointing are positive e.g. a dog on a leash labeled Fidelidad.<br /> <br /> Fans were often accessories in scenes of courting or flirtation in literature the theater and real life. This was reflected in popular themes of fan designs themselves. An English fan from the same period differently presented but bearing a similar message was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2026 “Fanmania†exhibit Met object no. 38.91.23. It shows “an array of potential suitors cast as contrasting types. In addition to offering amusement the fan might have provided a degree of moralizing instruction to young women on behaviors to either avoid or embrace in a prospective beau†exhibit label. <br /> <br /> unknown
19082111902160200385Nagakanegawa Takejiro 1908. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nagakanegawa Takejiro paperback
1806757P59London: T. Bensley; W. J. and J. Richardson 1806. First edition. Leather. Good. 6" by 4". Not Stated. A very scarce first edition of Thomas Love Peacock's poetry collection illustrated here with a romantic frontispiece. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.'Palmyra' is a collection of twenty-four poems by the noted English novelist Thomas Love Peacock.Illustrated with a frontispiece. Including the poems 'The Genius of the Thames 'Fiolfar' and 'The King of Norway'.Thomas Love Peacock was an English author and a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley who influenced Peacock's work. Peacock is best known for his satirical novels.Bookplate of R. W. Chapman to the front pastedown. Chapman was a British scholar and book collector known for editing the works of Samuel Jonson and Jane Austen. In the original mottled calf binding. Externally generally smart. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small loss to the spine label. Joints are a little cracked. Minor rubbing and a few light marks to the boards and spine. Hinges are a little strained but remain firm. Bookplate to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spots. Good T. Bensley; W. J. and J. Richardson hardcover
047067024XNew. Brand new and still unused unknown
1692Novel1<p>17th century Harlequin Romance</p><p>La duchesse de Medo. Nouvelle historique & galante. Anonymous. Duchesse de Medo. Contemporary calf 8vo 160 x 100 mm. 4 348 pp 384 p. Bindings somewhat worn. Paris 1692 Dedicated to Marie Anne de Bourbon Princess of Conti. With a contemporary ownership inscription on the flyleaf Levet 1699.</p><p>$ 1500</p><p>'The decadence of the year of Louis IXIV reign seems to have blighted prose as well writes Denis Hollier. The nouvelle Galante was a new prolific genre that always involved passion and seduction among the highly born with stereotyped character plots and styles. These 'novels' were as popular as romantic paperbacks nowadays. 'There is no climate in the world where love does not make itself felt' says the anonymous author to the reader and then recommends it to all ladies fine and delicate. The book must have aroused the reader's passions with two editions in France Paris & Lyon and one edition in Dutch. No English translation is known. Gay II 48 not in Barber. We located 12 copies of both editions.</p> Quinet
59006418London: Printed for T. Hookham Jun. and Co. . and Baldwin Cradock and Joy . 1817. Bound in 1/4 leather over decorative boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown Humphry and Mary Ward. Front hinge is weak but still holding. The second edition of the author's first novel. "Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics each with a single monomaniacal obsession and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. The setting is the country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader Esq. in Wales". 217 pp. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., Hardcover
CBS-9781498721288Taylor & Francis Np ExclusiveCbs. New. Taylor & Francis Np Exclusive(Cbs) unknown
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21901<p>mint pb Mira Love</p> Long Beak Productions paperback
1895PEACOCKT025163Macmillan London. 1895-1897. First edition thus. George Saintsbury introduces each volume. Octavo. Five volumes. Illustrations by H.R. Millar and F. H. Townsend. Fine period bindings by Zaehnsdorf of three quarter green calf with raised bands floral decorations gilt marbled boards and endpapers morocco title-labels top edges gilt.A fine set. Very attractive bindings. Macmillan, London. hardcover
184835106Wien: Gredruckt bei Joseph Ludwig 1848. First Edition. Broadside 50.75x42cm. printed blackletter; previous folds two corners neatly clipped not approaching text else Very Good to Near Fine. Proposal issued shortly before the Vienna Uprising of October 1848 during which violence broke out between the laboring class of the city and the Hapsburg army as the latter was trying to leave in order to quell the Hungarian Revolution. Löve most likely a university student at the time proposes that Vienna would best be defended if the walls surrounding the inner city were to be dismantled they would be irreparable if damaged by enemy bombardment and the moat filled in for building development. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK though noted in James E. Walsh 1848 Austrian Revolutionary Broadsides and Pamphlets 1976 p. 143 dating the broadside to June 31 1848. Löve issued another five or six titles listed in Walsh one signed in type "Redacteur I der Studentenzeitung" editor of the student newspaper; another "Redakteur des Stürmers" editor of "The Strikers". Gredruckt bei Joseph Ludwig unknown
1810408294Philadelphia: C. and A. Conrad & Co. Philadelphia; Conrad Lucas & Co. Baltimore; Somervell and Conrad Petersburg; and Bonsal Conrad & Co. Norfolk 1810. Hardcover. Very Good. Eight volume set complete. Octavos. Bound in contemporary American mottled calf with dark red and black leather spine labels lettered in gold edges speckled blue. Ink ownership signature of Love Maria Whitcomb and small and attractively printed bookplate of her husband “Dr. F. L. H. Willis†on the front free endpaper or flyleaf of each volume. Modest wear to the edges and joints at the spine ends overall scattered foxing and some staining one volume VI lacks the front flyleaf a very good set.<br /> <br /> An early American edition of Shakespeare’s Plays the first American edition was published in 1795-96 from the library of Frederick L. H. Willis and Love Whitcomb both of whom were leading exponents of the American Spiritualist movement. Frederick Willis was raised in the same household as Louisa May Alcott and her sisters and had developed a close relationship to Bronson Alcott. According to Alcott Memoirs compiled from Willis’s biographical writings he provided the inspiration for the character Laurie in Little Women. Expelled from Harvard Divinity School in 1857 for his involvement with spiritualism Willis earned a medical degree moved to Rochester to work as a physician and taught at the New York Medical College for Women. Love Whitcomb came from a long line of Unitarian pastors in New Hampshire. A writer and musician Whitcomb edited Tiffany’s Monthly Magazine wrote for The Banner of Light a Spiritualist journal and composed several songs and hymns for the movement.<br /> <br /> A handsome set of nice American bindings featuring Willis’s bookplates with ornamental borders and an interesting association with the Alcott family of New England. C. and A. Conrad & Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas, & Co. Baltimore; Somervell and Conrad, Petersburg; and Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. hardcover
2007Q-1846282810Springer 2007-08-23. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Springer hardcover
2001BN124733OXFORD UNIV PR 2001. 2001. Hardcover. The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock <br/><br/>The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock OXFORD UNIV PR hardcover