Geschichte der Deutschen Litteratur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart
by Vogt, Prof. Dr. Friedrich and Prof. Dr. Max Koch
Leipzig and Wien: Bibliographisches Institut, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. History of German Literature from Ancient Times to the Present. with 126 illustrations in the text and 25 chromolithographs. Includes reproductions of medieval illuminated manuscript pages. Very good in three quarter black leather over black cloth boards with maroon leather title label to spine. Gilt bands and rules to spine. Rubbing to joints, edges, and corners of boards. Chipping to spine ends. The interior is clean and bright... Read More
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Very Wicked Wolf
by Voight, Margot
Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, 1941. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. An uncommon shape book. The tale of the three little pigs, but from the perspective of the wolf. After failing to blow down the brick house of the third pig, he goes down the chimney and lands in a boiling pot of water. He vows to never again be mean to pigs and begins reading a book titled "How To Be A Good Wolf." Margot Voight wrote several... Read More
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The Works of Voltaire. VOLUME VI (6) ONLY. Ancient and Modern History (England, 1661 - China, Japan, 1690)
by Voltaire
Roycrofters; The St. Hubert Guild, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume VI ONLY of forty-two volumes. Number 23 of 1000 in the Edition Louis XIV featuring "Design No. 9" by Borain. Bound in "308 full blue Persian Morocco with beautiful floriated toolings bordered by white dentails inlaid in gold." Wear to hinges, edges, and corners. Clean and bright interior with browning to early and late pages. Frontispiece and three additional plates. Heavily gilded. An attractive volume despite noted... Read More
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Voyages en France et Autres Pays, en Prose et en Vers. Troisieme Edition, Augmentee
by Voltaire, La Fontaine, Berenger, et. al
Paris: Chez Briand, Libraire, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 5 volumes. Size: 16mo. Third edition, expanded. Illustrated with 36 engravings. Very good with brown leather spines and tips and marbled paper covered boards. The front cover of volume 1 is present but detached. Remaining hinges are fragile but holding. Marbled endpapers and page edges. The laid paper interiors are bright, although there is some light foxing. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations in each volume. In French. TRA/3113.
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Der Alte Schweizerbund: Ursprung und Aufbau
by von Castelmur, Anton
Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Bound in tan cloth boards with black title to spine and front cover. Illustrated with 21 facsimile illustrations of medieval Swiss documents. A few spots of foxing to interior, but clean and bright overall. In cream colored dust jacke with red title to spine and front panels. Jacket has a few small chips to the edges, minor rubbing to panel, and light browning to spine panel. Includes many fold-out... Read More
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The Russian Image of Goethe. Goethe in Russian Literature. 2 volumes
by von Gronicka, André [Goethe]
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Clean and bright. Both are in white dust jackets with black titles to spine panels. The spine panel of first volume is turquoise and the second volume is maroon. Light wear to edges of jackets, else fine. 304 pages in volume 1; 268 in volume 2. BOB/022621.
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Autograph Manuscript of "The Tragic Comedian
by Von Hutten, Bettina [Baroness von Hutten]
1906. Good +. An original 15,5 page holograph manuscript from the prolific author Bettina Von Hutten (1874-1957), probably best remembered for the "Pam" series. She was born in the United States as Bettina Riddle. She married the English Shakespearean actor Henry Ainley, and later married Baron von Hutten, Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, in 1897. They divorced twelve years later. This is a melodramatic story about the unhappily married wife of a drama critic who accidentally meets... Read More
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Autograph Manuscript of "Mrs. Algy's Delightful Morning
by Von Hutten, Bettina [Baroness von Hutten]
1907. Very Good. An original six-page holograph manuscript from the prolific author Bettina Von Hutten (1874-1957), probably best remembered for the "Pam" series. She was born in the United States as Bettina Riddle. She married the English Shakespearean actor Henry Ainley, and later married Baron von Hutten, Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, in 1897. They divorced twelve years later. The short story appeared in Volume 26 of The Windsor Magazine in 1907. It was illustrated by the... Read More
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Grossgreichenland
by Von Matt, Leonard
Wurzburg: Echter Verlag, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good + in Good + DJ. Hardcover. 4to. Beige cloth covered boards with gilt illustration to front board and gilt title to spine. Previous owner's signature to front free end page. Many b&w images of Greece and Grecian art. Brown illustrated dust jacket with white titel to front and spine panels. Chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Tape repairs have been done to the inside of the dust jacket. Text... Read More
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The Magic of Cranes
by von Treuenfels, Carl-Albrecht, Matthew D. Gaskins and Ben Posener [translators]
New York: Abrams, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Fine in light blue paper covered boards with white title to front board and to spine. Pristine interior with beautiful full color photographic illustrations on every page. Black and blue illustrated dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Light rubbing to dust jacket. 239 pages. NAT/072017.
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Der Freischütz
by Von Weber, Carl Maria
London: Augener and Co. Very Good. Best known for his operas, Carl Maria Von Weber (1786 - 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist, and critic. Der Frischüz (The Marksman) is an opera written with spoken dialogue in three acts, based on a romantic story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun. It is considered to be the first German Romantic opera [Wikipedia]. Very Good large slim volume containing sheet music to the opera. Corners... Read More
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Feuillets de Chirurgie et de Gynecologie
by Voronoff, S.
Paris: Octave Doin Et Fils, Editeurs, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good+. Hardcover. SCARCE. 4to. Dr. Serge-Samuel Voronoff (1866 - 1951) was a Russian-French gynecologist, surgeon, immunologist, and physiologist. An uncommon work on gynecology with photographic illustrations. Maroon leather backed marble paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Leather corners. 5 raised bands to spine. Minor fading to spine and minor rubbing to endges and hinges. Marbled end pages. Untrimmed page edges. Interior is clean and bright with many... Read More
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Favourite Fairy Tales
by Vredenburg, Edric, editor; M. Bowley, S. Jacobs, E.J. Andrews, illustrators
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d.. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. A surprisingly scarce title. No date, but the ownership signature on the free front endpaper is dated Christmas 1908. This charming collection of illustrated fairy tales, including Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb. Snow-White and Rose-Red, and Rapunzel among others, has fortunately or unfortunately been well used and read. The quite worn covers are present but detached and the spine is missing. Tears to first couple of front endpapers,... Read More
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My Father Made Toys
by [Incline Press] Sjölin; illustrated by Geraldine Waddington
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2006. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. One of about 200 copies published as the twelfth New Year booklet by the press. Bound in a multicolored paisley design paper covers. With two pages of text and five charming color wood engravings by Waddington printed on rectos only. Printed on Zerkall paper in Monotype Baskerville type. With gift card and a notice of availability of the illustrations as prints. In fine condition. Measures 7.5 x 10.5 inches. Unpaginated... Read More
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Land Utilization in Australia
by Wadham, Sir Samuel and R. Kent Wilson, Joyce Wood (eds.)
London: Melbourne University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. Very Good in an About Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is faded at spine and along lower edge, with a few small edge tears. Australia. AUS1/11211.
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A Forgotten Friend of India: Sir Charles Forbes 1st Bart
by Wadia, Ruttonjee Ardeshir
Baroda: Padmaja Publications, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. SCARCE. Small 8vo. Grey paper coverd boards with black title to front board and to spine. Small spot of browning to front board and to spine. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Green and blue dust jacket with green and white title to front panel and green title to faded spine panel. Wear to dust jacket includes minor creasing, fading, and... Read More
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The Mayor's Bicentennial Ball for the Benefit of the Arts. October 30, 1976. "Program Plus Four
by Waesche, James F.
Baltimore: the Mayor's Bicentennial Ball Committee, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in blue paper covered boards with gilt title to front board. Minor edgewear and rubbing to hinges. Previous owner's address sticker to top edge of front free end page. Else is pristine with illustrations and advertisements throughout. Includes the supplement and folio collection laid in at rear. Unpaginated. BALT/011316.
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From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization
by Wagner, Monique
New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. SCARCE. American University Studies, Series IX: History, Vol. 43. Fine in white and green glossy paper covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Pristine interior with illustrations throughout. Index, 326 pages + photgraphic illustrations at rear. French History. FREHIS/102915.
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![Bionos kai Moschou ta leipsana [printed in Greek characters]. Illustrabat et emendabat Gilbertus Wakefield](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/574/781/1556781574.0.l.jpg)
Bionos kai Moschou ta leipsana [printed in Greek characters]. Illustrabat et emendabat Gilbertus Wakefield
by Wakefield, Gilbert (Earl of Aberdeen), editor
London: T. Bensley, 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Scarce. This edition is printed in Greek and Latin. Bion ( onos) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus. One long poem about Adonis and seventeen shorter fragments of his poetry survive. Moschus (Moschou) was an ancient... Read More
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A Pinch of Experience
by Walford, L.B.
New York: John W. Lovell, 1891. Paperback. Good in Wraps. Paperback. SCARCE. Good in wraps. Most of spine is missing. small 8vo. Literature. LIT3/4032.
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Lord De Villiers and His Times: South Africa 1842-1914
by Walker, Eric
London: Constable & Company, Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. With laid-in two page letter and postcard from Walker to Cornelis Willem de Kiewiet, and with de Kiewiet's ownership signature on the free front endpaper. Eric Anderson Walker (September 1886 - February 1976) was King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. He was a pioneer in writing... Read More
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Mary Pickford: The Queen of the Silent Film Era
by Walker, George A.; Cari Beauchamp, introduction; Tom Smart, afterword
Toronto, 2020. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. Trade edition of a limited edition pictorial biography of silent film star Mary Pickford. Signed by George Walker on the title page. (Some copies are signed in reverse or mirror.) Noted wood engraver George A. Walker celebrates the life of Mary Pickford (1892-1979), a silent film star whose groundbreaking contributions to the motion picture industry earned her the title 'Queen of the Movies'. Toronto-born Gladys Louise Smith, who would later come to be... Read More
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Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
by Walker, George
Toronto: The Porcupine's Quill, 2010. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. "Although international politics is often central to discussions of 9/11, "Book of Hours" focus on innocent life lost adds emotional urgency to the issue of who and what is responsible ... [It] is called "Book of Hours" because it is an exploration, condemnation, and celebration of our culture's devotion to time, and the way our regimented routines can reassure and also stifle us" (George Walker, Preface). Bound in grey paper... Read More
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On the Dependence of the Refractive Index of Gases on Temperature. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 201, pp. 435-455
by Walker, George W.
London: Dulau and Co, 1903. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. VG in green wraps with black lettering on covers. Technical. TEC111170.
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Ink and Paper. A Printmaker's Art
by Walker, George
Toronto: Firefly Books, 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. Signed in brown ink to title page with small illustration and an inscription in mirror image by George. A wonderful tribute to the art of George Walker. "Ink and paper are my muses. Using hand press printing and printers' ink to create original prints has absorbed me for at least the last 47 years. I love teh qualities of all papers, especially the luxury of fine rag papers and washi... Read More
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