Divi Thome Aquinatis in Libr[orum] de Anima Aristotelis Expositio. Magistri Dominici de Flandria Ordinis Predicator[um] in eundem Libru[m] Acutissime Questiones & Annotationes
by Aristotle. Thomas Aquinas & Dominic of Flanders.
Venice: Octaviani Scoti per Bonetus de Locatellis, 1503. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio, printed in gothic type in two columns, woodcut initials & text diagrams; woodcut printer's device on final leaf. Bound in modern half parchment with printed paper boards. A copy with significant contemporary marginal notes in several sections, the annotations run tight up against the outer margin. Title page cut down by one inch at the foot; some scattered spotting & worming, but generally a nice... Read More
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De historia animalium lib. IX, de partibus animalium, et earum causis libri IIII, de generatione animalium libri V...
by ARISTOTLE (384 BC-322 BC) – GAZA, Theodorus (1400-1475)
Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1545. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (157 x 106mm). [8], 307pp., [13] leaves, including final blank. Woodcut printer’s device of Scotus with personification of globe and motto “FIAT PAX IN VIRTUTE” (Peace be with thee). Latin translation by Theodore Gaza. 12-line woodcut historiated initials at beginning of first chapter and at beginning of the Universalis generationis partitio... (p. 224) of heraldry. Few woodcut initials throughout. Contemporary vellum; (worn; spine and covers darkened; scattered stains, worming affecting... Read More
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Avec Pascal
by Arland, Marcel; Guerin, Raymong (preface); Rouault, Georges (illus.)
Editions de Salon Carre, 1946. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps, in slipcase; with tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative details printed in purple, and all pages unopened. Number 540 from a limited edition of 1100 copies, "sur papier offset superieur." Covers very lightly rubbed. Slipcase a bit dusty and scuffed. An excellent copy, text block is clean and bright. From the "Oeuvres et Visages d'Aujourd' hui" collection.
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The London Venture
by Arlen, Michael
London: William Heinemann, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. Black boards, stamped in white with pictorial vignette. Illustrations by Michel Sevier. First edition, first issue (copies dated 1919 are actually the later issue). An exceptionally nice copy of the author’s fragile first book with original DJ present (tear to front flap). Inscribed to the publisher Nelson Doubleday to “Dear Nelson. I look back on this book, my fusi-born with the same fatuous pride and idiotic self-satisfaction... Read More
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The London Venture
by Arlen, Michael
London: William Heinemann, 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. The true first edition has 1920 on the title page. Author's first book. Cheap paper toned, else an exceptionally nice copy in DJ.
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Lily Christine
by Arlen, Michael
London: Hutchinson & CO, 1929. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A quite lovely copy.
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The Crooked Coronet
by Arlen, Michael
London: William Heinemann, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Scarce proof copy in plain light green wraps. Stamped proof copy. Spots to edges otherwise very good. 8vo; 327 pp.
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The London Venture
by Arlen, Michael
London: William Heinemann, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. Black boards, stamped in white with pictorial vignette. Illustrations by Michel Sevier. First edition, first issue (dated 1920 as opposed to 1919). Cheap paper browned, otherwise a nice copy of the authors fragile first book with original DJ present (small chips to head and base of spine).
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Lily Christine: The Story of a Good Woman
by Arlen, Michael
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. Original cloth in art deco style dust jacket. Book with some light stains to edges of first few leaves; DJ is a bit faded, but intact and still attractive, with original price of $2.50 present.
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Babes in the Wood
by Arlen, Michael
London: Hutchinson, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo; original blue cloth, dw. Pictorial jacket is edgeworn and nicked, but still attractive.
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May Fair
by Arlen, Michael
London: W. Collins and Son, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Original cloth; dw. Jacket designed by Edmond Dulac in gold and black. DJ is edgeworn and scraped with some small chips, but largely still all there. Previous ownership signature dated 1925.
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Man's Mortality
by Arlen, Michael
London: William Heinemann, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Near Fine. A utopian novel set in the 1980s. Original cloth; dw. pp. 380. Scattered spots to spine edge, and some internally, but generally speaking a nice copy in unusually fresh dust jacket. This copy is also INSCRIBED by Michael Arlen, and seldom found thus.
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The Crooked Coronet and Other Misinterpretations of the Real Facts of Life.
by Arlen, Michael
London: Heinemann, 1937. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo; original cloth, dw. Previous owner's signature, else a nice copy in lightly worn jacket. A collection of short stories.
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Young Men in Love
by Arlen, Michael
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket printed in black, gold, and green. Very scarce in wrapper. A very nice copy with minimal wear.
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The Gambit Book of French Folk Songs
by Arma, Paul (ed.); Poston, Elizabeth (arr., trans.); Arma, Edmee (illus.)
Boston: Gambit Incorporated, 1972. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial cloth; in matching dust jacket; 4to; pp. [12], 152, illustrated. Some light soiling along bottom edge of front board; spine tips and corners gently rubbed; front board flaring slightly; gift inscription on FFEP, otherwise internally bright and clean. Dust jacket somewhat age-toned; lightly rubbed along the edges; closed tear at top edge of rear panel; VG in mylar, not price-clipped.
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Dance Memoranda
by Armitage, Merle; Corle, Edwin (ed.)
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Cloth-backed paper over boards; illustrated dust jacket. Richly illustrated throughout. Boards a little sunned along the edges; spine tips gently rubbed; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket lightly tanned along spine and edges. A nice, clean copy.
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Frenzies from France, or the Nightmares of a Doughboy: Cartoons and Jingles
by Armstrong, Frank L.; [U. S. Army; WWI]
n.p.: Frank L. Armstrong, 1919. Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound illustrated wraps; 12mo; pp. [27], handwritten text and illustrations (in facsimile). Inscribed by the author on the FFEP: "Best Wishes to Ralph Lewando. Frank L. Armstrong, July 1942." Lewando was a violinist and composer, and music critic for the Pittsburgh Press. Covers a little rubbed; tiny closed tear at fore-edge of front cover; text block tanned. A scarce little self-published item... Read More
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Department of the Army Program for Dissemination of Atomic Energy Information for ORC and NG Organizations, Phase II and III.
by United States Army; Sixth Army
Presidio of San Francisco, California: Headquarters Sixth Army, 1950. Paperback. Near Fine. Staple-bound text block; 4to; pagination varies (approx. pp. 100), typed, mimeographed text and illustrations, and "RESTRICTED" printed on every page. Two courses, offering a summary of the discoveries leading to development of atomic energy, and the administrative organization for its control in the United states, a comparison of atomic bomb and TNT bomb explosions, types of atomic bomb explosions, effects of known atomic... Read More
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Zoneilles, Scenario
by Arnaud, Michel; Queneau, Raymond; Vian, Boris
College de 'Pataphysique LXXXIX / Les Films Arquevit, [1962]. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps. Number 557 from a limited edition of 609 (total limitation of 753, with variations). Covers just a little rubbed, else fine.
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Poems, National and Non-Oriental
by Arnold, Edwin; [Terry, Ellen]
London: Trubner & Co., 1888. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth; 8vo, in custom chemise and slipcase; pp. viii, 375, [1] (blank), 12 (ads). Ellen Terry's copy, with her name and annotations on the title-p., and a four-page autograph letter signed, dated 21 February 1889, from Arnold, congratulating her on her celebrated performance as Lady Macbeth. Spine tips and edges of boards lightly bumped; small spots of soiling on the cloth. Previous owner's... Read More
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Lettre a Fidel Castro
by ARRABAL
Paris, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author.
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(Arriani Nicomedensis) Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica Graec. Et Lat. Cum annotationibus et indice Graeco Iocupletissimo Georgii Raphelii accedunt eclogue Photii ad Arrianum pertinentes cum lectionibus variantibus Dav. Hoeschelii, summaria librorum distincta & emendata, index rerum accuratissimus nec non tabula geographica expeditionis Alexandri
by ARRIANUS, Flavius [Arrian of Nicomedia] (c. 95- 175) – RAPHEL, Georg (Georgius Raphelius) – HOESCHEL, David (eds.)
Amsterdam: apud Wetstenium, MDCCLVII [1757]. First Raphael Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (206 x 127mm). xlviii, 637, [199] pages, 5 (ads.); including half-title in Greek and added engraved title in red and black. Full-page engraved frontispiece of the personification of Victory. Folding engraved map of Alexander’s expedition to Asia (p. 4). Greek and Latin text in double columns, extensive footnotes; the translation and notes by Georg Raphel (1673-1740), German Lutheran theologian and writer. Contemporary vellum boards with spine... Read More
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Europa 1907, Stedelijk Museum Cat. 176, 6 Juli - 30 September 1957
by [Art]
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1957. Paperback. Very Good. Printed onionskin over pictorial heavy cardstock wraps; 4to (190 x 260 mm); unpaginated, (approx. pp. 40), printed on a variety of papers, and illustrated in b/w throughout, with one tipped-on color plate. Onionskin wrinkled and lightly chipped along the edges; cardstock wraps a little rubbed along the edges; text block lightly tanned along the edges. Catalogue reproducing works by Kirchner, Matisse, Renoir, Monet, and others.
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Two Antique Cross-Stitched Bookmarks
by [Americana; ephemera; hand-made crafts; folk art]
America, late 1800s or early 1900s. Ephemera. Good+. Two bookmarks, both with a floral motif and the sentiment "Forget Me Not" cross-stitched onto heavy cardstock and mounted to silk ribbon. (One adds the initials "JD.") Ribbons soiled, wrinkled, frayed, but cross-stitch in good condition.
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Fabuloserie, Numero 1, 2, 3, 4: Pascal Verbena, Francois Monchatre, Michele Burles, [et] les lierres de Jano Pesset, les broderies de Loli
by [Art Brut]; [Bourbonnais, Alain]
Paris: Edition Atelier Jacob, 1979-1981. Paperback. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps, cloth backstrip; 4 volumes, square 8vo; pp. 23; 22. [1]; [11]; 23. The first 4 issues of this "petit cahier a grand spectacle," just a little rubbed at corners, but otherwise fine. Uncommon.
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