The Arthurian Legend: An Exhibition
by (Manchester Exhibit)
Manchester: John Rylands University Library, 1985. First edition. Stapled wraps. Very good. Stapled wraps with a woodcut design and titles on the upper cove. 60pp. Some illustrations. A very good copy. Stapled within is an airletter from the library's Keeper of Printed Books to Dr. Charles Monell thanking the Dr. for his donation of the catalogue of the US Arthurian exhibition. .
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Amanda
by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Illustrated by the author.. Thin folio. (40)pp. Orange cloth printed in dark brown on the spine and the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a fine copy with only a trace of wear and soil. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the folds and edges and is rough along the top else is in very... Read More
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Amanda
by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941. First edition. Fine. Hardcover. Thin folio. (40)pp. Orange cloth printed in dark brown on the spine and the upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a near fine copy with only a trace of wear and soil. The dustwrapper has a couple of short closed marginal tears, else it is in fine condition. It is not price-clipped. This copy... Read More
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Sir Archibald
by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full... Read More
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Libertas Ecclesiastica, Or, A Discourse Vindicating the Lawfulness of Those Things Which are Chiefly Execpted Against in the Church of England, Especially in its Liturgy and Worship
by Falkner, William
London: Printed by J.M. for Walter Kettilby, 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (xvi),552pp. Contemporary full leather. Rebacked to style with the spine in matching calf, five compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Wear to edges, some scuffing, else a very good copy. Imprimatur on leaf A1v: "Imprimatur, Sam. Parker. Jan 23. 1672/3." Bound with "The second book concerning ceremonies and ecclesiastical constitutions" commencing at p. 299 (continuous pagination). The author was preacher at... Read More
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Life, Adventures, and Travels in California ... to Which are Added the Conquest of California and Travels in Oregon
by Farnham, T. J.
New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1849. Hardcover. Good. Pictorial Edition. 8vo. iv, 5-468p. Brown sloth decorated in gilt on the boards and spine. Marbled edges. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Cloth is worn at spine tips, hinges, edges and corners, textblock shaken, but still a good copy. Some copies of this edition were apparently issued with a large map; this copy was not. Howes F49; Graff 1294' Wagner Camp 107; Cowan 83A. .
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The Wishing Tree
by Faulkner, William
New York: Random House, 1964. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. Illustrated by Don Bolognbese.. Copyright date is 1964, but actually printed in 1967. Blue cloth, gilt spine title. Light wear and signs of age else a very good copy. Neat ownership name and date on the front paste down. The dust wrapper is a little rough along the bottom else is in near fine condition. I exhibits the first state price of $3.95 and... Read More
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A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe
by Fellowes, W. D.
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1820. Hardcover. Very good. The third edition. 8vo. 138pp. Illustrated with full page plates, including 12 aquatints which are vividly and magnificently hand-colored. In a contemporary binding of full crimson straight-grain morocco. The spine is in five compartments with raised bands, all intricately tooled in gilt. Gilt and blind rolls border the boards with a gilt vignette of the monastery on the center. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Williams of Blaina... Read More
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Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, By the late Henry Fielding, Esq
by Fielding, Henry
London: A. Millar, 1755. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. 12mo. (4),(xviii,)(19)-(276)pp. (Pp. 241-276 misnumbered 193-228.) Full sprinkled calf, probably 19th century; Spine in six compartments, gilt. Red and green lettering labels, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half title present. Hinges rubbed and cracked but firm; tip of spine worn; a few lower text margins near the end slightly soiled, not affecting the text; else a very nice copy. With the Gustavia A. Senff bookplate on the front pastedown.... Read More
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Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches
by Field, Stephen J.
Not Published, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original cloth, gilt title. Cloth sunned to tan on spine, slight fading at top of front cover; waterspot. Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field was practicing law in New York when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing Panama at Chagres. He soon became a leader of the California bar, going on to sit on both the State Supreme Court and the United States... Read More
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Man on the Move: The Story of Transportation (Signed)
by Firestone, Harvey S., Jr.
New york: G. P. Putnam;s Sons, 1967. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 8vo. 318pp. Illustrated. Black cloth, gilt spine titles. Trace of foxing along the top edge, residue from a paper clip n the front free endpaper else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is lightly worn at the edges and folds else is in near fine condition. Errata slip laid-in and another tipped in. Inscribed by Firestone to Dolores Hope. Also... Read More
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The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha
by (Bible in English); W. Russell Flint
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated with four color plates by W, Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum, spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties, else a very good copy. The extra suite of plates has been mounted on blank pages leaving a small adhesive discoloration on the margin of the plates and on... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Mrs. F. Hemans
by (Foredge Painting) Hemans, Mrs. F.
Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1885. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated with full page engravings on steel. Full green morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt and with red leather lettering labels, gilt. Gilt rules on the board borders, All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, and with the original decorated cloth cover as the front pastedown. A couple of pages at beginning and end with very light foxing, else this is a fine copy. With a foredge painting of a sailing... Read More
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Poo-Poo and the Dragons
by Forester, C. S.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in fine, bright condition with only a trace of aging along the top of the rear flap. You will not find a nicer copy of this title. .... Read More
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Poo-Poo and the Dragons
by Forester, C. S.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (144)pp. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. A fine, bright copy with only the barest trace of rubbing along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is unclipped and is in near fine, bright condition with only a short closed marginal tear and creasing along the top. .
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Foreign Topography; Or, An Encyclopedick Account ... of the Ancient Remains of Africa, Asia and Europe
by Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley
London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1828. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. xlviii, 348pp. Illustrated with 11 full page engraved plates, the plate of Egyptian Trades with contemporary hand-coloring. Recently bound to style in quarter calf, spine in six compartments and raised bands; leather lettering labels, gilt. The plates include scenes of Thebes, Acheron, Bacchus, Roman Houses, Pompeii, Telmessus, etc. Without the additional plates from other works sometimes found. The frontispiece was once closely trimmed, not affecting the image,... Read More
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Alan Houser: Book Illustrations
by Foss, Nelson; Anna Marie Houser
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Ten illustrations housed in a portfolio of cloth spine, decorative paper boards, facsimile of Houser's signature inset on the upper board, tape ties. The colophon is likewise on a folio-sized sheet. The illustrations are selected from four books: "Cochise" (1953), "Blue Canyon Horse", (1954), "The Cave" (1958) and "Desert People" (1962). The illustrations are printed letterpress by the Palace Press on paper... Read More
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Tried by Fire: A Work on China-Painting
by Frackelton, S. S.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 4to. x,110pp. 15 plates, some in color. The colored plates are chromolithographed. Additional illustrations in text. Publisher's brown buckram printed in red, black and gilt. Decorative endpapers. All edges red. Boards worn and soiled, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip laid-on. The binding is only good. There is a whited-out signature on a preliminary blank else the textblock is in fine condition. Tutorial on china painting with examples,... Read More
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Crocodile Tears
by Francois, Andre
London: Faber & Faber, 1955. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by the author.. Oblong 4to. Yellow paper over boards printed in black, green and red. Plain endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. Trace of soil else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped and is in fine condition. Wonderfully original tale of a crocodile who comes to live with a Parisian family. Precedes the Paris-New York edition of 1956. English and French on facing... Read More
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Life with the Esquimaux; `
by Hall. Captain Charles Francis
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marstons, 1865. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. x, 547pp. Popuar edition. Illustrated throughout and with a large folding map in the rear. Contemporary polished calf, spine in six compartments, gilt, gilt rules on the boards, marbled paper endpapers and edges. The binding is a little scuffed and worn at the edges, and the map has a closed repaired tear (no loss) where it is attached to the book, else this is a very good... Read More
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Geographical Memoir upon Upper California ..
by Frémont, John Charles
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. One of 425 copies. Decorated cloth binding reproducing the map. GIft inscription on the front free endpaper else a fine copy with the facsimile map in the read pocket, as issued. .
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Les Premières Illustrée ... Saison Théâtrale 1882-1883
by (French Stage) Toché, Raoul
Paris: Monnier et Cie, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Thick large 4to. Full orange morocco. Spine in six compartments, intricately gilt. Black leather lettering labels, gilt. Boards with two rectangles of triple gilt rules and intricate corner ornaments, gilt, with oval black onlays each with a gilt flower in the center, Top edge gilt. Gilt inner dentelles, qwith the binder's signature: Smeers Engel, Marbled endpapers. Upper hinge neatly mended else this is a fine copy. UNIQUE... Read More
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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected ...
by Frere, John Hookham
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, large 8vo. ccxcv,(1), 321,)(1); 495,(1)pp. Half polished calf. Spines in six compartments, with raised bands, tooled in gilt and with black leather lettering labels,m gilt. Marbles boards, edges, and endpapers in a non-pareil pattern. Engraved frontispieces. Lengthy memoir by nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere. Ornate engravedbookplates of Horation Noble Pym in each volume, as well as the 1921 signature of A F. Burleigh, Jr.,... Read More
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Moses and Monotheism
by Freud, Sigmund
(Letchworth, Hertfordshire): The Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 223,(1)pp. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Stray pen mark on bottom edge, trace of wear from age, else a very good copy. Freud's final work, in which he proposed that Moses was an Egyptian priest who perpetuated monotheism through a different religion, was murdered, then venerated by his followers. .
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Commentatio de Druidis Occidentalium Populorum Philosophis.Accedunt Opuscula Quaedam Rariora Historiam Et Antiquitates Druidarum Illustratantia Itemque Scriptorum De Iisdem Catalogus
by Frick, Johann Georg; Albert Frick, ed
Ulm: Daniel Barthomolaei et Filium, 1744. Hardcover. Near fine. Small 4to. (xxii),226pp. Engraved frontispiece (Druides) and one additional engraved plate (Druides et Druidissae). Bound to style in quarter leather; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Scarce work on Druids edited by the author's son with added portions by Lescalopier and Cesar Egasse Du Boulay. The "Opvscvla rariora integra itemqve ex aliis excerpta" include Pierre Lescalopier's "Theologia vetervm Gallorvm" and... Read More
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