Slavnov dvor [Slavnov Court, Six Stories]
by Andreev, Vasilii
Leningrad: Rabochee izd-vo Priboi, 1927. Paperback. Good+. Original illustrated wraps, printed in black and green; pp. [92], with ads. Covers rubbed and lightly scuffed; just a few ex-library markings; faint marginal dampstain. Cover design by A. Aitbinenko. The author's second collection of short stories, and rather scarce.
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Notes sur l'Amour
by Anet, Claude; Bonnard, Pierre
Paris: G. Cres & Cie, 1922. Limited Edition of 150 copies. Paperback. Very Good+. Wraps; 4to; with original drawings by Pierre Bonnard, engraved in wood by Yvonne Mailliez. Very light rubbing at spine tips and along edges; bottom corner bumped; gift inscription on half-title page.
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La Rive d'Asie
by Anet, Claude [Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931)
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1927. Paperback. Very Good. Original wrappers printed in red and black, edges uncut, in glassine dust jacket and within decorative faux straight-grained morocco and cloth folder and slipcase. 4to. One of 26 copies inscribed by Anet (dated 1927) and printed on Arches paper. Slipcase worn otherwise very good, unopened copy.
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Angelo's Pic Nic or Table Talk
by ANGELO, Henry
London: John Ebers, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo, full polished calf. Etched colored frontispiece. A lovely copy. Two attractive bookplates, including one of well-known collector, William Hartmann Woodin.
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Kellogg's Funny Jungleland Moving-Pictures
by [Animals]
W. K. Kellogg, 1909. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound color pictorial wraps. Trifold, with full-color illustrations throughout, cut into flaps for creating a variety of silly animals. Covers lightly scuffed; eraser smudge and wrinkling along bottom edge of front cover. Charming and bright.
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Sketches of the Most Prevalent Diseases of India: Comprising, A Treatise on the Epidemic Cholera of the East; Statistical and Topographical Reports of the Diseases in the Different Divisions of the Army Under the Madras Presidency; Embracing Also the Annual Rate of Mortality, &c. of European Troops; and practical observations on the effects of calomel on the alimentary canal and on the diseases most prevalent in India.
by ANNESLEY, JAMES.
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary leather, rebacked. A sturdy copy, complete with the map and three colored plates. One of "an imposing array of books on the Indian climate and diseases. (Garrison, History of Medicine)."
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Three Courses and a Dessert: Comprising Three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal; and a Melange.
by Anonymous (William Clarke); Cruikshank, George
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original cloth. Complete with ads bound in at rear. 50 illustrations by George Cruikshank. A very nice copy.
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White Paper
by Anonymous; Cocteau, Jean (preface, illus.)
New York: Macaulay Company, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Black cloth; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. 88. Spine tips lightly rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed; a few small chips and closed tears along the edges; price inked out.
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The Lucky Seventh
by Anonymous
Privately Printed, c. 1940s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Black leather boards, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; 4to; pp. 120, mimeographed typed; illustrated throughout with tipped-in b/w photographs. Upper board flaring slightly; lettering gently rubbed; faint age-toning. A truly unique edition. In order to circumvent the then-existing obscenity laws, the author created by hand this mimeographed soft-core volume, augmented with tipped-in photographs of glamorously posed nude models. Intended as the initial book of "The Bob... Read More
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Religious Freedom in Russia, Consisting of An Argument in Behalf of Russian Baptists Held Amenable to The Russian Penal Statute Against Change of Religion; Addressed to his Excellency, M. Le Chevalier Henri, Baron d'Offenberg, minister plenipotentiary from Russia to the United States.
by [Anonymous]
New York: Press of Bible and Publication Society, 1874. Paperback. Fair. Original wraps. 19 pp. Briefly and anonymously inscribed by the author at the top. Last leaf detached. SOLD AS IS.
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Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes
by Anthon, Charles
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. Ninth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 12mo; pp. xxi, 332, [16] (ads), plus frontispiece. Spine tips, joints, and edges of boards scuffed; corners gently bumped. Contemporary ownership marking on verso of frontis., bleeding through to the margins, but leaving the image mostly unscathed. Bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, W. A. Leary's Cheap Book Store, in Philadelphia.
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The Muse's Mirrour: Being a Collection of Poems, Written by the Following Authors: Mr. Pope Swift Churchill Gray Colman Wilkes Lloyd Thornton Garrick Ansty Jernyngham C. Denis Sheridan Cumberland Cunningham Edmund Waller Julius Mickle Schomberg J. Philips Law. Sterne Newell-Puddicombe T. Vaughan Mr. Soam Jenyns H. Kelly Fowkes Woty Aaron Hill Bryant Edwards McMillan Cha. Crawford Wm. Whitehead Paul Whitehead Evelyn Meadows Dr. Parnell Young Goldsmith Berkley Landhorne S. Johnson Sheridan Burton Rev. Mr. Mason Caswal P. Stockdale Rev. Mr. Ogilvie Nath. Lloyd Lord Carlisle Lyttelton Palmerston Sir Tho. H. Williams Alex Schomberg, Hon. C. Townshend Mr. Fitzpatric, C. Fox Mr. Erskine Capt. Thompson Rice Lady M. W. Montague Mrs. Montague Lady Craven, Mrs. Vaughan Lennox Greville Miss Sally Carter H. Moore Aikin.
by [POETRY - ANTHOLOGY]
London: Sold by J. Debrett... and Richardson and Urquhart, 1783. Hardcover. Good+. 2 volumes, 8vo (175 x 110mm). Pagination: 263pp.; 278pp., [1, errata]. Contemporary tree calf ruled in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments with red and green morocco labels (joints starting, light edgewear, marginal staining on pastedowns and endleaves only, otherwise good and sound copies). Stated Second Edition; first published in 1788.
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The Week-End Book
by [Anthology]
London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth in yellow pictorial dustwrapper. Ownership signature dated 1937. In spite of many printings to this point a not easy book to find in an original dustwrapper.
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Papekost, Opgedist in Geuse Schotelen Handelende van de Pausselyke Opkomst, Afgodery, en Beeldendienst, mitsgaders hun Val en Einde. [Bound with:] Vervolg der Paapekost, vrugteloos voor hun opgedist: als mede de Rymende Roomsche Echo, het Geuse Paternoster Blokziel
by [ANTI-CATHOLICISM] [STEVERSLOOT, LAURENTIUS].
[Leiden?]: Op kosten van den Uitgever [J. du Vivie?], 1720. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contemporary calf spine gilt, modern marbled paper over boards, modern calf over corners, red leather spine label, all edges sprinkled red. 6 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches (17.75 x 11 cm); [6], 180 pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved illustrations in text; [6], 72 pp. Wear to spine, modern calf repair over tail of spine, contents with occasional pale spotting and light toning. A satirical illustrated poem... Read More
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Anecdotes of Africans
by AFRICANA – ANTI-SLAVERY]
London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street. 1827. Hardcover. Good. 8vo (185 x 115mm). Pagination: [xi], 88pp. Signatures: *(4)-b(2), B-D(12), E(8). Title page with four-line excerpt of poem “The Negroe’s Complaint” by William Cowper, written in 1788 and printed in an English anti-slavery pamphlet: “Fleecy looks and black complexion, Cannot forfeit nature’s claim: Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.” Contemporary (possibly original) boards backed with modern cloth, edges uncut; (title with loss at top,... Read More
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Introduction a l'etude de l'Art de la Guerre (Vol. I-IV) [Principes de la Strategie]
by Antoine Charles Étienne Paul de LA ROCHE-AYMON, Marquis
Weimar: Bureau de l'Industrie, 1802-1804. Hardcover. Very Good+. Atlas volumes; four bound together in one, with a total of 73 plates. Vol. I: 12 plates (one folding). Vol. II: 23 plates (on 19 sheets). Vol. III: 24 plates (1-12, 13a, 13b, 14-23). Vol. IV: 14 plates (1-7, 8a, 8b, 9-13). A few maps lightly soiled and wrinkled along the edges, but overall contents are nice and clean, in worn,... Read More
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Q. Sectani Satyre
by Antoniano, P.
Amstelodami, 1700. Edicio Novissima. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. 18th century leather bindings, decorative endpapers. From the library of Abel Berland. A very pretty set.
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The Three-Cornered Hat
by Antonio de Alarcon, Pedro; Kredel, Fritz (woodcuts); Levin, Lawrence M. (trans.)
New York: H. Bittner & Company / [Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press], 1944. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Yellow cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; illustrated dust jacket; 4to (6.5 x 10 inches); pp. 151, [1], with 21 woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Book is fine, in like dust jacket with just a little light rubbing along the edges.
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Royal Command [A playful manuscript story involving Ants]
by [manuscript children's book; ANTS]
perhaps the 1950s?. Paperback. Good. Green wraps, quite worn (front wrap detached;) bound with yellow ribbon, ink and gouache illustration of a horse mounted to bottom corner of front cover; oblong (217 x 174 mm); contains 21 alternating leaves of tissue (with text handwritten in green) and heavy cardstock (illustrated in ink and gouache), all appearing on the recto only. Total of 11 full-page original ink and goache illustrations, a few signed, tho difficult to decipher (appears... Read More
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Der Freischütz Travestie, by Septimus Globus, Esq., with Twelve Etchings by George Cruikshank, from Drawings by an Amateur; and the Original Tale Whereon the German Opera is Founded
by [Apel, Johann August]; Cruikshank, George (illus.); [Crowquill, Alfred] (illus.)
London: C. Baldwyn, 1824. First Edition, Large Paper. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt-ruled full polished calf by Riviere, gilt-stamped ornament direct in spine compartments (5 raised bands), gilt-stamped lettering red leather spine label; small 4to; pp. [4], 68, plus 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, after drawings by Alfred Crowquill. Joints discreetly repaired; spine tips and edges of boards a bit scuffed; tail of spine chipped; bookplate (handsome) on front paste-down. First half of text block waterstained, extending from... Read More
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Extrait de la Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpetriere, Clinique Medicale de l'Hotel-Dieu Paris (Service de M. Le Professeut Dieulafoy): Ankyloses Generalisees de la Colonne Vertebrale et de la Totalite des Membres
by Apert, E.
Paris: Masson et Cie, n.d. (early 1900s). Paperback. Good+. Wraps; 8vo; pp. 11, with illustrations in text, photogravure frontispiece, and engraved plate. Covers detached and lightly chipped along the edges; the whole a bit wrinkled along the edges.
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Cortege Priapique
by APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME
La Havane: Au Cabinet des Muses, 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Title in red and black. 8vo, contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers, as issued; small tear to spine; contents clean; card slipcase (split). Number 73 of 125 copies on Japon.
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Oeuvres completes de Guillaume Apollinaire, fac-similes du tome 4
by Apollinaire, Guillaume
Paris: Andre Balland et Jacques Lecat, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. Full leather case, "G. A. / 4" stamped in gilt on spine; contains facsimiles of 22 pieces of Apollinaire ephemera (photos, postcards, letters, etc.) as well as a card describing each item. Silk interior of leather case just a little frayed and sunned, otherwise case and all items are fine. An interesting little treasure chest of Apollinaire (1880-1918), the French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic... Read More
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Casanova. ComÈdie parodique.
by APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume
Paris: Gallimard, 1952. Soft cover. Fine. Copy 754/1600 total. Fine in original glassine. Pages uncut.
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The Poet Assassinated. With: A group of eleven items of correspondence, publication and exhibition announcements, cards and poster, chiefly related to the publication of Jim Dine's The Poet Assassinated.
by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Dine, Jim
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Limited Edition. 10x8, 128pp. Limited deluxe edition, Tanglewood Press, 1968. Illustrations by Jim Dine, translated by Ron Padgett. Loose leaves with text and black and white photographs in illustrated wrapper (glassine dustjacket). In the original hardcover slipcase with vibrant illustration printed in pink. Padgetts background in French poetry of the Dada and Surrealist periods, coupled with Dines illustrations make this a masterful artist's book from the Pop Art movement. This deluxe... Read More
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