The Aeneid
by Virgil; Translated by John Dryden,with Mr. Dryden's Introduction
Norwalk, Ct.: The Easton Press, 1979. Book. Illus. by Carlotta Petrina. Fine. Full-Leather. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First Easton Press Edition. One of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Collector's Edition, bound in genuine leather. Gilt decorative black leather with gilt lettering and rules to the spine. Four raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end pages. Silk bookmark. Color frontispiece. Easton Press unused book plate laid in. A Fine copy..... Read More
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Standard Dance Music Guide; Songs That Will Endure
by Anthony Ray De Vita
New York: Anthony Ray De Vita, 1941. Book. Very Good. Stapled Wrappers. 2nd Printing. 4" x 10 3/4". Shows copyright dates of 1939 and 1941. Very Good, triangular corner chip bottom corner front wrapper, dampstain bottom edge rear wrapper. 19 pp. with detached "Handy Fake List " laid in. "A classical and alphabetical list of the World's Best and most Popular Standard Songs with their Original keys and Starting notes. Plus a 'Handy Fake List' with tunes listed according... Read More
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Musician's Handbook Standard Dance Music Guide; "Musical Comedy Edition"
by A.(nthony) Ray De Vita
New York: Anthony Ray De Vita, 1948. Book. Very Good Plus. Stapled Wrappers. 4th Edition. 4" x 10 3/4". Very Good Plus, wrappers lightly soiled. 64 pp. "A classified and alphabetical list of the World's Best and most Popular Standard Songs with their Original keys and Starting notes. Plus 'A Handy Fake List and Song Reminder of Top Tunes'." Musician's Handbook.
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Freedom's Battle. I. N. A. in Action 1942-1945
by Vithalbai K. Jhaveri and D. G. Tendulkar.
Bombay: Vithalbhai K. Jhaveri: Sital Mahal, Walkeshwar, Bombay, 1947. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Stitch-bound folio. 61 unnumbered pages, color and b&w illus. Inkstamp at front wrapper reading "With Com- pliments from Dhirajlal Bhulabhai Desai. Warden Road, Bombay." CONDITION: Good, spine largely perished, wrappers and text-block with vertical fold, rear wrap- per with some chipping to extremities, binding holding with all leaves present and illus. clear and clean. ... Read More
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Fridtjof Nansen; Explorer - Scientist - Humanitarian
by Vogt, Per
Oslo, Norway: Dreyers Forlag, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Full Calf. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Full pale-blue calf, gilt ruled and decorated boards, top edge gilt. Near Fine, light foxing fore edge, in a Very Good Plus dustjacket, 2 small chips at head of spine, small spot of soil rear panel. Twelve articles concerning the Nobel Prize winner's life and work, emphasizing achievements in exploration, art and humanitarian activities..
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La Pucelle d'Orleans. Poeme en vingt-un Chants
by Voltaire, (Francois Marie Arouet de)
Paris An VII (1799): Crapelet Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With an engraved portrait and 21 copperplates.xiii, (1), 223; (4), 243 pp. Two volumes bound in half green morocco over marbled boards, gilt back with crown and sword in four compartments, marbled end papers,all edges gilt. Very Good Plus, light edge wear, extensive light pencil bookseller notations in both French and English verso front marbled end paper, giving references for... Read More
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Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Nouvelle édition avec notices, préfaces, variantes, table analytique. Conforme pour le texte à l'édition de Beuchot, enrichie des découvertes les plus récentes. Vol. 17-20: Dictionnaire Philosophique Volumes I-IV
by Voltaire
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE as the complete set. Vols. I -II published 1878, III & IV in 1879. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decorations in four compartments, marbled end papers and edges, ribbon markers. Very Good, Vols. III and IV missing rear facing marbled end paper, boards rubbed at edges..
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L'Ingenu
by Voltaire
Paris: l'Enseigne du Pot Casse, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Half Mottled Calf. Limited and Numbered Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Finely bound with original wrappers in contemporary half mottled calf over marbled boards, the bask gilt with red morocco label, marbled end papers, top gilt, Woodcuts by Gaston Goor. Copy No. 1210 of 2500 on Chesterfield laid paper. Near Fine, prior owner name front end page, scattered light toning. A lovely binding..
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La Pucelle D'Orleans Poeme en Vingt et Un Chants . In Two Volumes
by Voltaire
Rouen, France: Chez J. Lemonnyer, Libraire, 1880. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 197, viii, 183 pp. Two volumes bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Very Good Plus, light rubbing at cornes and edges, spines sunned to brown. A handsome set..
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(Binding, Fine - Saulnier) Oeuvres de Voltaire, Romans in Three Volumes
by Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet); Avec Notice, Notes & Variantes Par Frederic Dillaye
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1877. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Three volumes, 6 1/8" h x 3 3/4" h, One of 100 unnumbered copies printed on Whatman paper, in Fine signed Saulnier bindings of half crushed carmel morocco over marbled boards, four raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and tail date bordered by tooled rules, top edges gilt, marbled end papers, ribbon markers. A Fine set, beautifully bound..
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Probability, Statistics and Truth
by von Mises, Richard; Prepared By Hilda Geiringer
London and New York: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd./ MacMillan Co., 1957. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second Revised English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second English Edition, revised and based on the 1951 definitive German Edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket and RARE Thus. Small publisher's sticker front panel. From the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, his small name stamp front end page. Stolnitz was an international expert on demographic trends and a frequent consultant to... Read More
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by Von Neumann, John and Morgenstern, Oskar
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Edition stated, 1947. From the collection of George J. Stolnitz, long time Professor of Economics at Indiana University and nationally recognized demographer, with his 16 page undated notebook in his pencil handwriting titled "Seminar on Theory of Games" with the first 8 pages filled with his notes in pencil. Returning to Princeton in 1946 following wartime service in the Air... Read More
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Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance with Death
by Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
New York: Seymour Lawrence /Delacorte Press, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Seventh Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seventh Printing stated, July 1969, with same dust jacket as First Printing, price of $5.95 and code 03/69 rear flap. Near Fine, small top corner bumps, in Near Fine dust jacket, small creases at top corners, spine toned from sun. A handsome copy..
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
by Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Near Fine, top corners bumped, in a Near Fine dustjacket with 3 small chips at spine tips. Illustrated with photographs of the Broadway production and rehearsals by Jill Krementz and Bert Andrews. A quite nice copy of the Book Club edition, this title is scarce in any edition..
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"Report on the Barnhouse Effect" in Collier's Magazine, February 11. 1950 (His First Published Work)
by Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
Springfield, Ohio: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1950. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. First Printing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good, 1" closed tear ans 1" rub top edge front wrapper, small chip fore edge rear wrapper. , original mailing label bottom edge front cover. Contains Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's. first published work, "Report on the Barnhouse Effect", which was later included in the science fiction anthology Tomorrow, the Stars, edited by Robert A. Heinlein. It is also part... Read More
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The Philosophy of History, in a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna
by Von Schlegel, Frederick; Translated from the German with a Memoir of the Author by James Burton Robertson, Esq.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Revised Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii, 498 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Very Good, bound in contemporary polished calf, ornate gilt back, marbled end papers and edges, boards rubbed at edges, tissue guard detached but complete, interior clean, fresh and unmarked. Uncommon in attractive binding..
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The Journey of Lewis David Von Schweinitz to Goshen, Bartholomew County in 1831; Translated By Adolf Gerber
by Von Schweinitz, Lewis David
Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. Near Fine, wrappers lightly soiled and prior owner name front wrapper. Pages are uncut and are clean and tight. Indiana Historical Society Publications Volume 8, Number 5. Scarce..
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Forty Years of Oratory Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses and Speeches in Two Volumes
by Voorhees, Daniel Woolsey; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and Daughter Harriet Cecilia Voorhees
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations, both volumes are Near Fine, cloth lightly rubbed, front hinge on volume II cracked. Daniel Woolsey Voorhees was a United States Senator from Indiana, a leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the Civil War. A close friend of Abraham Lincoln, due to his stature he gained... Read More
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Antiworlds
by Voznesensky, Andrei; Edited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward; Foreword by W. H. Auden
New York: Basic Books, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"For Pfingston from Andrei Voznesentsky 1 Nov. , 1977". Association Copy, inscribed to noted Indiana poet and photographer Roger Pfingston. Near Fine, thin lines of sunning at top and bottom edges of spine, in Near Fine dust jacket, small chips at head of spine and small rubs... Read More
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Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World
by Wagner, Henry B.
San Francisco: John Howell, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near Fine, small tear 3/8" top edge title page near gutter, tidy prior owner gift inscription front end page. In original red cloth with gilt titles, most pages are uncut. A quite handsome copy of this classic study. 541 pp. with illustrations, fold-out maps ( all Fine) and index..
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Coins & Coffins
by Wakoski, Diane
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1962. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Inscribed By Author at verso of front wrapper -"September 29, 1962 To Richard & Kathy" in black ink without her signature. Her first book of poems. In French-fold wrappers, Very Good, wrappers toned and with faint vertical creases..
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Smudging
by Wakoski, Diane
Santa Barbara , CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Warren - who must know that life includes all images/ the sun, moon, mars/ what wars, what peace they make with each other." Near Fine, sticker shadow front wrapper, Diane Wakoski's name and address in ink rear end page..
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Smudging
by Wakoski, Diane
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Paperback Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with a small drawing at title page. Near Fine, even slight sunning at spine. Book feels unread..
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A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon ( Byrd Expedition Association Copy )
by Walden, Arthur Treadwell
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on end page following half-title page - " To an old and tried friend Dana Coman. Arthur Walden Sept. 1/30". In 1927 Walden helped train sled dogs and drivers for Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition, and he led the dog-sled freighting of the supplies from the ships... Read More
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
by Walker, Alice
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Scarce, her 3rd book of poems. Dustjacket has 2 closed tears, 1" and 1/2", and a tiny chip at the head of the spine..
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