The Private Ear and The Public Eye. Two One-Act Plays
by SHAFFER, Peter
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy in near fine modestly rubbed dust jacket. Inscribed by Shaffer: "To Michael Curtis from Peter Shaffer, with best wishes." Author's second published work. Uncommon signed.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Pa-Ha-Sa-Pah, or the Black Hills of South Dakota, a Complete History
by Rosen, Peter
St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co, 1895. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, plates. 645,[1]pp. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, a bit faded and shaken, hinges cracked but holding. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (book label and pencil notes on the endpapers). First edition. Frontispiece portrait, plates. 645,[1]pp. 8vo. A scarce early history of the Black Hills, well illustrated with photographic plates, portraits, scenes in the Black Hills, Indian portraits, etc. Rosen was a missionary in the Black Hills from 1882 to 1889.... Read More
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The Italian Job (Six original oversize photographs from the 1969 film)
by Peter Collinson (director); Troy Kennedy-Martin (screenwriter); Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi (starring)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film, with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9... Read More
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[Scrapbook and photo album]: Alice Clarkson Cocktail Cottage
by ST. PETER, Anthony
Sea Girt, New Jersey, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quarto measuring 10.5" x 12.5". Maroon cloth over paper boards with "scrapbook" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains ephemera and 21 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3.5" x 5.5". Near fine with near fine contents. A scrapbook kept from Anthony St. Peter's lounge, Alice Clarkson Cocktail Cottage in New Jersey during the 1940s. The album begins with two variant announcements, one on blue... Read More
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Cours D'Architecture, qui comprend les Ordres De Vignole; Aves des Commentaires, les Figures & Descritions de fes plus beaux Batimens, & de Ceux de Michel-Ange (Course of Architecture, which includes the Orders of Vignola; With Commentaries, Figures & Descriptions of his most beautiful Architectural Works, & those of Michelangelo)
by (Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da). Daviler, A. C. (Augustine Charles d'Aviler)
La Haye: Pierre Grosse & Jean Neaulme, 1730. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Large Octavo. [45] leaves, 1 folding plate depicting geometric principles; 355pp., 31 folding plates. Bound in mottled calf with elaborate decor and gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Frontispiece engraving. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated headpiece, decorative initial. Contains preface, essay on the life of Jacques Barozzo de Vignole, a table of the plates,... Read More
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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley
by SYMONS, Arthur. (James Ross)
New York: The Modern Library, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First Modern Library edition. Introduction by Arthur Symons. Spine sunned and a little rolled, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Ownership Signature of novelist James Ross on the front fly (this book eventually ended up in the library of Ross's sister and brother-in-law, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor and her husband, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor). Ross is best known for his 1940 noir classic novel... Read More
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Tale of Little Pig Robinson, The
by POTTER, Beatrix
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1930. The Scarce First American Edition of "Little Pig Robinson," Containing Twenty-Five Black and White Illustrations Not Found in the English Edition POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1930]. First American edition, containing twenty-five black and white illustrations not found in the English edition. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 5/16 inches; 209 x 161 mm.). [6], 141, [1, blank] pp. Inserted color frontispiece and... Read More
Offered by David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
STRICTURES ON HARVARD UNIVERSITY. -- PERSONAL SATIRE IS WORTHY OF LITTLE NOTICE-- IT IS SELDOM JUST. BY A SENIOR
by [Austin, William]
Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom, 1798. 35, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, light rubberstamp, light foxing and mild wear. One small margin hole just touches a couple of letters, but does not obscure them. Good+. Austin, to whom DAB attributes authorship, graduated from Harvard in 1798. Among his classmates were Joseph Story and William Ellery Channing. "Now forgotten, William Austin was a prominent literary figure of his time, and an acute critic of law and... Read More
Offered by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson.. Large 4to. Deep red cloth blocked in black and gilt with a picture of Alice, the Rabbit, the caterpillar and a boy on the upper cover, and the mock turtle serving soup on the spine. illustrated endpapers. WIth Gwynedd Hudson's twelve full color illustrations tipped-in and protected by printed tissue guards. All illustrated with two-color vignettes and chapter headings. The gilt on the upper board... Read More
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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels... Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). [Barham, Richard]
1907. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Large 4to, xix, 549 pp. with 24 color plates, 12 other plates and 66 illustrations, the plate at 254 is badly offset from the text as always (in every copy we've seen or read about). Full crushed blue morocco extra, covers gilt, backstrip panelled in gilt, gilt edges, backstrip slightly faded, signed by Bayntun Riviere. § Edition de luxe limited to 560 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. A... Read More
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Compendium Physicae Experimentalis Conscriptum in Usus Academicos.
by MUSSCHENBROEK, Petrus van (1692-1761); Johan LULOFS (1711-1768).
Lugduni Batavorum:: Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1762., 1762. 8vo. [iv], 515, [1] pp. 14 folding plates, woodcut title vignette. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine, leather gilt-stamped spine label, raised bands; minor dampstain to lower edge (text block unaffected), spine head and joints worn. Ownership mark of Stephani . . ." Very good. The "final update" of Musschenbroek's popular textbook, which appeared posthumously in 1762. Musschenbroek was best known as the inventor of the Leyden Jar, the... Read More
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books
1993 International Festival of Authors Promotional Poster
by (COELHO, Paulo; VOLLMANN, William; AUSTER, Paul; MUKHERJEE, Bharati; SETH, Vikram)
1993. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together many of the best writers of contemporary world literature. One of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 61 signatures. Signed by: Paulo Coelho, William Vollmann, Jane Urquhart, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bharati Mukherjee, Aidan Mathews, Peter Levi, Marilyn Davis, Carol Shields, Ruth Rendell, Mavis Gallant, Barry Callaghan, Rose Tremain, Peter Mayle, Walter Abish, Robert... Read More
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The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle
by Wilson, Adrian [assisted by] Wilson, Joyce Lancaster; Zahn, Peter (Introduction)
Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976. First and Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. One of 1000 copies, folio size, 257 pp., in a custom binding with clamshell box. The Nuremberg Chronicle (also known as the "Liber Chronicarum") "is, after the Gutenberg Bible, probably the most celebrated of early printed books. It is a compendium of history, geography and the wonders of the world as viewed from medieval Nuremberg, with some 1800 illustrations provided by the multiple use, for different... Read More
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![Furnival Books [Twelve Volumes, Complete Set]: The Key of the Field; The Hessian Prisoner; The Man From Kilsheelan; The Stars, The World, and The Women; The Last Voyage; The Big Man; Little Peter the Great; A Moral Ending, And Other Stories; A Terrible Day; The Wild Swan; Christmas Formula; [and] Green Thoughts](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/094/483/1702483094.0.l.jpg)
Furnival Books [Twelve Volumes, Complete Set]: The Key of the Field; The Hessian Prisoner; The Man From Kilsheelan; The Stars, The World, and The Women; The Last Voyage; The Big Man; Little Peter the Great; A Moral Ending, And Other Stories; A Terrible Day; The Wild Swan; Christmas Formula; [and] Green Thoughts
by Powys, T.F; Bates, H.E.; Coppard, A.E.; Davies, Rhys; Hanley, James; Strong, L.A.G.; Manhood, H.A.; Warner, Sylvia Townsend; Garnett, David; O'Flaherty, Liam; Benson, Stella; [and] Collier, John
London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd (Books 1-4) [and] Joiner & Steele, Ltd. (Books 5-12) [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Garnett, R.A.; Austen, John; Gibbings, Robert; Papé, Frank C.; Odle, Alan; Garwood, Tirzah; Hilder, Rowland; Kermode, William; Grant, Duncan; Moon, P.V.; Leighton, Clare; Wolfe, Edward. Each volume one of 550 copies, quarto size, approx. 650 total pages, each volume signed by the author. The "Furnival Books" were a series of shorter works from young authors,... Read More
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[HUMAN ANATOMY]. Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams..
by Bidloo, Govard (anatomist) and Gerard de Lairesse (artist)
Amsterdam: By de weduwe van Joannes van Someren, de erfgenaamen van Joannes van Dyk, Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1690. Very good. Double folio broadsheet engraving, 305 x 470 mm (visible image size), matted (matte protected by clear perspex). THIS HUGE, AND QUITE STRIKING 17TH-CENTURY ANATOMICAL ENGRAVING HAS BEEN JUSTLY CELEBRATED BY PHYSICIANS AND ARTISTS FOR OVER 300 YEARS. For obvious reasons the Surrealists found it particularly fascinating. ¶ "This stark dissection -- with ragged... Read More
Offered by Michael Laird Rare Books LLC
The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing ... the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... Collected from the best historians, chronologers and lexicographers
by Collier, Jeremy, & Louis Moreri, et al.
London: printed for Henry Rhodes; Thomas Newborough; the assigns of L. Meredith; and Elizabeth Harris, 1701. First edition in English of Moreri's great Le grand dictionaire historique, here styled the "second edition, revis'd, correct'd and enlarg'd to the year 1688," 4 vols. in 3, folio, engraved frontis portrait, title-pp. in red and black; text in double column; contemporary and probably original quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering direct on spines; joints cracked, cords holding; extremities rubbed and worn;... Read More
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Amadeus
by SHAFFER, Peter
(London): Andre Deutsch, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Peter Shaffer: "To Michael Curtis from Peter Shaffer." Shaffer adapted his own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham (co-star Tom Hulce was also nominated in this category for the title role). Scarce signed.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Bey, Hakim [Peter Lamborn Wilson]
Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1991. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Hakim Bey on the half-title page. viii, 141, [11] pp with 11 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's color wraps. Near Fine with very light soiling to covers and textblock corners; spine uncreased. Hakim Bey was the pen name of the American anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, best known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones: short-lived spaces that exist outside formal structures of... Read More
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![Cracker in the Glade: A Portrait of Robert Shorter, Fisherman, and His Family [with] Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades (Expanded edition)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/497/642/1279642497.0.l.jpg)
Cracker in the Glade: A Portrait of Robert Shorter, Fisherman, and His Family [with] Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades (Expanded edition)
by STORTER, Rob [and] Betty Savidge Briggs
Athens, Georgia: Self-Published [and] University of Georgia, 2000. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition [and] first expanded edition. Two volumes. F in the second volume. The first volume is the original self-published volume *Cracker in the Glade*, 1980 (octavo, printed wrappers, near fine). The second volume *Crackers in the Glade*, 2000 has a new foreword by Peter Matthiessen (oblong quarto, hardcover, fine in about fine dustwrapper). Each volume describes the life of Everglades fishing guide and folk artist,... Read More
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[Offprint]: What's Happening to Prose
by VAN DUYN, Mona
[Urbana, Illinois]: College English [University of Chicago Press/ National Council of Teachers of English], 1954. Softcover. Good. First separate edition, offprint from *College English*. Large octavo. [8]pp. pagination as issued p.[17]-24. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Covers are quite worn along spine and partially detached at staples, with a few nicks and short tears, a single horizontal crease where once folded, just a good copy of a rare publication. Text of a paper read at the Conference on College Composition... Read More
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Essay on Gothic Architecture. With Various Plans and Drawings for Churches: Designed Chiefly for the use of the Clergy
by Hopkins, John Henry
Burlington (VT): Printed by Smith & Harrington, 1836. 4to. 275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches]. vi. 46 pp. Lithographic title-page and 13 full-page lithographic plates. Original cloth, paper label on spine; cloth discolored and shows some remnants of water staining, spine and tips expertly repaired with tissue, spine label chipped; tide marks to preliminary leaves, frontispiece and title-page, plates 12 and 13 and rear end leaves. With fault a good copy. First edition. Illustrated... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Peter Parnall. 269pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown cloth. Illustrated. Spine ends gently bruised. A few tiny scuffs to extremities. Small bookstore sticker at head of front flap. Blind ownership embossment in lower right corner of title page. In a dust jacket, with subtle rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Signed holographic letter from Abbey laid in. Eight lines of text in blue ink and signed Ed... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
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Daido Moriyama [SIGNED, W/ SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINT]
by Moriyama, Daido (森山 大道); Peter B. Willberg (design)
London: Guiding Light/Michael Hoppen Gallery, 2004. Limited first edition. Softcover. near fine. 1/100. 15 1/2 x 11 1/2". Elephant folio. 82pp. [2]. Unbound folded leaves. House in a lined translucent and re-sealable electrostatic shielding bag, with a hand-numbered sticker on the front. Printed photo-illustrated b/w wrapper with pink lettering on the front cover. #95 from a limited edition of 100 numbered copies, with a signed original 8x10" b/w print. Print protected in plastic. This copy is also signed... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
A Collection of Irish Street Ballads
by (BRERETON, Peter, printer)
Dublin: P. Brereton printer 1 Lr. Exchange St, 1867. Very Good. A collection of 12 broadside song sheets of Irish ballads and drinking songs, printed in Dublin by Peter Brereton circa late 1860s. Each song is printed in one column on a thin sheet of wove paper, with a woodcut illustration at the head of the sheet. Four sheets are neatly mounted and one is professionally backed onto modern paper; the other seven are unmounted as issued, very... Read More
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The Magic Christian (First Edition, inscribed)
by Terry Southern
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Louise / with all the best wishes / Terry Southern." Basis for the wild 1969 film starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough, Roman Polanski, and many others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned on the extremities, with brief rubbing at the corners and spine ends.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.