Big Sur
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. black cloth spine, gilt title, decorated blue and black boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is near fine with only traces of wear. It is slightly shorter in height than the book, a condition we se occasionally with this title. .
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Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin, Beschreven en Afgebeeld
by Keulemans, J. G.
Leiden: P. W. M. Trap, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Green pinhead cloth blocked in blind and gilt. With 58 (of 60) full page highly detail hand colored illustrations of birds, and enhanced with gum arabic, followed by letterpress text in Dutch describing them. Textblock loose in binding, some page edges rough, lightly worn but the plates are mostly in near fine to fine condition and bright though a few of them have some very... Read More
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Jane Austen: A Bibliography
by Keynes, Geoffrey
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. 12mo. 289, (3)pp. Cream-colored paper spine, printed paper label, blue paper boards. Frontispiece, and with facsimiles of Austen's works. One of 875 copies, of which this is No. 783. A fine copy. The original dustwrapper is present, a little finger-soiled and somewhat rough along the top, else is in very good condition. Nonesuch Bibliography, 64.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Khayyam, Omar; Edward FitzGerald
East Aurora: Roycroft, 1899. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong 8vo. One of 920 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard; this is copy No. 755. Nicely bound in full orange morocco, title in blind on the spine, and the binding signed 'Denny'. In a custom clamshell case of buckram with the embossed leather title in blind and gilt from the original binding. A fine copy. .
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Khayyam, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald, transl
London: Robt. Riviere & SOn, 1928. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated. Finely bound in red calf, sumptuously gilt on the spine and both boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, by Riviere.
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Tokyo Vignettes
by Kincaid, Zoë
Tokyo: The Sanseido Co., Ltd. 1933, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (18), 284,(2)pp. Cloth spine printed in black; pictorial cloth boards; pictorial end papers. Illustrated by Hiroshi Yoshida, Beisai Kubota and Shoshun Otake. Color frontispiece. Spine lightly sunned and with light wear on the sine tips, else this is a very good copy. With the ownership name of Bettie Parsons on the front paste down. Inscribed by the author on the reverse of the... Read More
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The Great South: A Record of Journeys
by King, Edward
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Thick 8vo. xiv, (15)-802, iv pp. Green textured cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board. Map of Southern States as well as many illustrations throughout by J. Wells Champney. Travel in Louisiana, Texas, Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. Light wear to the corners and some rubbing... Read More
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community
by King, Martin Luther, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black cloth spine printed in red and gold; yellowpaper over boards; yellow endpapers, A fine copy. Stated first edition. The dustwrapper is price-clipped else fine. Laid in are two newspaper articles on King's march, as well as a copy of Don Wolfe's poem, "Dear Coretta...." .
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King's Views of the New York Stock Exchange
by King, Moses
New York: King's Handbooks, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Exchange, Wall Street, and prominent men of the era. Green ribbed cloth printed in black and gilt. First and last pages on brittle yellow paper. The tit is overprinted raising the number of portraits to 1961. Front hinge repaired, the brittle title page is rough along the edges, binding is also rubbed, else this is aivery good copy. .
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The Saint's Tragedy; Or, the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary
by Kingsley, Charles, Junior
London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Author's first book. Black victorian cloth, paper label. Neatly rebacked in matching cloth (not quite as sunned as the original) with original spine laid-on. Original yellow endpapers retained. Label and original spine soiled and chipped else a very good copy in modern victorian cloth jacket, paper label, imitating the original binding. Laid in is a small folder wdried flowers and the inscription: "From Charles Kingsley's ground(?)/7 June 97/. ... Read More
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England Wales, and Scotland
by Kohl, J. G.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,pp. Two works bound in one Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind with gilt lines; the upper board blocked in gilt with a prize notice with leaf borders: "Praemium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter Dediti in Academia Glasguensi". Marbled endpapers. Only a trace of wear else a very good copy.
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Ireland, Scotland, and England
by Kohl, J. G.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,(ii),202pp. 32pp. publisher catalogue. Three works bound in one, the last titled at its beginning, England and Wales". Original greenish-brown T-grain cloth blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. coated endpapers. Hinges neatly and nearly invisibly mended, head and tail of the spine worn, light wear to the edges and corners, else a very good copy.
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Bairei Hyakucho Gafu Zoko-hen (Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds): Volume 2 Only
by Kono Bairei (幸野 楳嶺)
Tokyo: Okura Magobei, 1884. First edition. Wraps. Very good. Volume 2 of the three volume set: "Chi" (Ground Birds). Printed paper covers bound in the Japanese style with folded leaves. Japanese text followed by exquisite depictions of a variety of birds in their natural environment, not only those native to Japan, but also exotic birds. The illustrations are subtle colored woodblocks, esteemed for their beauty and realism. A very copy light soil and wear to the... Read More
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Bairei Hyakucho Gafu Zoko-hen (Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds)
by Kono Bairei (幸野 楳嶺)
Tokyo: Okura Magobei, 1884. First edition. Wraps. Very good. Three volumes. Printed paper covers bound in the Japanese style with folded leaves. Japanese text followed by exquisite depictions of a variety of birds in their natural environment, not only those native to Japan, but also exotic birds. The illustrations are subtle colored woodblocks, esteemed for their beauty and realism. A very good set with only light soil and wear to the covers. Volume I, "Ten" (Sky)... Read More
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Upper California
by Künzel, Heinrich
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo, pp. [2], 61, [1]. Illustrated by Mallette Dean, facsimiles, endpaper maps; fine in original rust cloth, pictorial paper cover label, printed paper spine label. The plain dustwrapper is present. worn at the spine tips and fold edges. Written to encourage German emigrants to California, the Künzel pamphlet was likely the first of its time and place to concentrate on California. One of 450... Read More
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Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Sistens Examen Bituminis Neocomensis ..
by L'Agascherie du Ble, Charles Louis
Basel: Typis Emanuelis Thurneysen, 1758. First edition. Softcover. Very good. 4to. 18pp. Printer's device on title page, woodcut chapter heading and initial capital. Original binding of simple thread joining the two signatures without covers. Dissertation on the medical application for bitumen or asphalt of Como (Novum Comun), Italy. Later published in Leyden in 1761 under the title Dissertatio Medica Sistens Examen Bituminis Neocomensis. Light soil and staining else a very good copy.
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Tunis et ses Environs:Texte et Dessins D'Apres Nature Par Charles Lallemand Cent Cinquante Aquarelles Tirées en Couleurs
by Lallemand, Charles
Paris: Maison Quantin, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small folio. 245, (3)pp with nearly every page illustrated with full color aquarelles from the author's jewel-link watercolors. 150 illustrations. Custom binding in full woven blue and silver silk floral design, titles on Suminagashi marbled paper printed in deep blue, Suminagashi marbled endpapers in shades of blue, tan and white. Erasure in the upper margin of page one, not affecting text (ownership name?), a couple of pages with... Read More
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The True Story Book
by Lang, Andrew
London, et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xiv, (2), 337, (1) pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's catalog. Blue cloth blocked on the upper board and spine in gilt; all edges gilt. With 6 colored plates by Henry Ford. Bookplate. Trace of rubbing on bottom edge else a fine, bright copy. .
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The Book of Romance
by Lang, Andrew, ed
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xiv, 384pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the spine and upper board in a design by H. J. Ford and with Ford's initials at the lower right of the upper board. Decorated endpapers by Ford. All edges gilt. Illustrated with eight full page color plates as well as numerous black and white full page plates. Wear to the edges and hinges, occasional darkening from age,... Read More
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Aucassin and Nicolete
by Lang, Andrew, transl
London: Davud Nutt, 1887. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Near fine. 8vo. xx, 70 pp. Printed in black and red. Two engravings of the title persons. Stiff plain boards covered with a dustwrapper. Trace of soil to the wrapper but essentially a fine copy. With the engraved bookplate of Charles B, Foote, and a Blackwells bookseller ticket. One of 53 numbered copies from an edition of 63 on Japanese paper, and signed by David Nutt. This is... Read More
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Autograph Letter, signed
by Lang, Andrew
London: n.p., 1887. Leaf. Fine. One sheet folded, with an signed autograph letter on one page. "May 9, (1887). My dear Sir, Immediately after I sent you Letter on Reynolds, Mr. Gosse told me he had done the same thing. As I presume mine is now useless, I would be glad to have it returned. I send today a Letter on Plotinus. Faithfully yours, A. Lang. " In fine condition. The letter was probably addressed to... Read More
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Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870
by Langford, Nathaniel Pitt
n,p: Nathaniel Pitt Langford, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xxxi, (1), 122, (4)pp. Blue cloth blocked in red and gilt. Top edge gilt. Marginal abrasion to the title and frontispiece, else this is a fine, bright copy. Illustrated with photographs, portraits, and sketches. First state, without the publisher's name on the title page. Later states had the publisher's imprint added with a rubber stamp. Graff 2389. .
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The All Sorts of Stories Book
by Lang, Mrs., ed. by Andrew Lang
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by H. J. Ford.. 8vo. xvi, 377pp. Brick colored cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board; all edges gilt. Illustrated with four color plates. Bookseller ticket on the front pastedown; near gift inscription dated 1913 on the reverse of the front free endpaper, light rubbing on the edges, and a rubbed line on the rear board, else a near fine copy 30... Read More
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Writings of Fermín Francisco de Lasuén
by Lasuén, Fermín Francisco de; Finbar Kenneally, OFM, ed
Washington, DC: Academt of American Franciscan History, 1655. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. 4to. xlix, (3), 413;xiii, (1), 464pp. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper boards. Illustrated. Index. A fine set. After the death of Junípero Serra in 1784, Lasuén was appointed president of the California missions. He served in this role for 19 years, establishing nine missions: Santa Barbara, La Purísima Concepción, Santa Cruz, Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, San José,... Read More
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Old Ship Figure-Heads and Sterns
by Laughton, L. G. Carr
London: Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. 281,(1) pp. Fifty one plates, 7 are in color and mounted, the rest in black and white. In addition, there are numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. Finely printed on handmade paper. Half-morocco binding, the spine in six compartments with gilt titles, decorated paper boards. One of 100 numbered copies; this is number 65. Neat ownership name on the front pastedown dated 1942. A... Read More
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