![The Confession of a Fool [alt. title: Defence of a Fool]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/873/163/1489163873.0.l.jpg)
The Confession of a Fool [alt. title: Defence of a Fool]
by August Strindberg; Ellie Schleussner [trans.]; Ernest Boyd [pref.]
New York: Viking Press, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1925. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pale grey decorative dust jacket printed in red and black; 327pp. Jacket extremities and spine panel rather toned with tiny chips along margins and a hint of soil, corners bumped, top textblock edge rather dusty, else a Very Good copy overall in the uncommon jacket. Reissue of the Swedish author's first autobiographical novel based on his marriage to... Read More
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![A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/780/809/1675809780.0.l.jpg)
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature [Two Volume Set]
by Augustus William Schlegel; John Black [trans.]
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy / Blackwood / Cumming, 1815. Very Good. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1815. First English Edition. Two volumes; octavos; contemporary half dark blue polished calf over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spines in five compartments; xv,[1],391,[1]; iv,390pp. Light wear and toning to boards, scattered foxing, mid-19th century ownership ex libris of a J. Howard Stough to front pastedowns, else a Very Good,... Read More
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Aur. Corn. Celsi De Medicina Libri Octo
by Aulus Cornelius Celsus; Robert Constantin, and Isaac Casaubon [shorter works]; Theodor Jansson ab Almeloveen [ed.]
Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Wolters, 1713. Very Good. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Wolters, 1713. "Edition ultima, auctior & correctior." Small, thick octavo (16cm); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling, dark topstain; [44],574,[24]pp. (collated complete); steel engraved portrait frontispiece and added title page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Parchment dust-soiled and unevenly darkened, brief scratches to rear cover, light dampstaining affecting final few leaves, fore-edge of several gatherings mysteriously sliced without affecting text, extensive manuscript notes in a contemporary and a... Read More
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![Leviathan [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/451/821/1742821451.0.l.jpg)
Leviathan [Signed]
by Paul Auster
New York: Viking, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking, 1992. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [12],275pp. Light edge wear to jacket and board margins, brief foxing to cloth spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page.
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Poems by Dobson, Locker, and Praed with fac-similes of water color paintings by Maud Humphrey together with illustrations by various artists
by Austin Dobson; Winthrop Praed; Frederick Locker; Maud Humphrey [illus.]
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1892. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1892. First Edition. Quarto. 71 pages. Six full page color plates after Maud Humphrey's work. Humphrey was a water color painter, suffragette, and mother of Humphrey Bogart. Beige cloth with floral pattern overlaid. Stamped in gilt and silver. Top edge gilt. Boards are worn and cracked along edges. Heavy soiling and staining. Binding is sound; one color plate detached but present. Light... Read More
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Tales for Travellers, Vol 2
by James H. Schmidt [ed.]; Various Authors
Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985. Very Good. Napa: Tales for Travellers, 1985. Twelve folding-map style pamphlets (57cm x 40.5cm open; ~20cm x 9.5cm folded); printed two-sided in panels and full color. Housed in green slipcase. Pamphlets are clean and crisp overall with just a few corner-creases but no tears or marks. Slipcase is rubbed along edges with a few scuffs to surface, otherwise sturdy and sound. Second volume of James H. Schmidt's Tales for Travellers, which featured... Read More
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![Les Nouvelles Pensees de Galilee: Mathematicien et Ingenieur du Duc de Flornence [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/773/523/1569523773.0.l.jpg)
Les Nouvelles Pensees de Galilee: Mathematicien et Ingenieur du Duc de Flornence [Two Volume Set]
by Galilee [Galileo]; R.P. Marin Marsenne [trans.]; Pierre Costabel and Michel-Pierre Lerner [eds.]; Bernard Rochot [avant-propos]
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1973. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1973. Two volumes; slim octavos; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 130; [131]-318pp. Minor wear and dust-soil, later ownership signature to front free endpapers, else Very Good and sound.
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![Lezioni Toscane [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/230/708/1625708230.0.l.jpg)
Lezioni Toscane [Three Volume Set]
by Giuseppe Averani
Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia di Gaetano Albizzini, 1744. Very Good. Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia di Gaetano Albizzini, 1744-1761. First Editions. Three volumes; quartos (25cm.); contemporary paste-paper card wrappers backed in decorative paper printed in bright orange and red, manuscript spine titling; Vol. II lacks final blank, else collated complete; frontispieces in earliest two volumes including folding portrait to the first, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Wrappers rather dust-soiled and a bit worn, Vol. I textblock separating from... Read More
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The Seven Year Itch: A Romantic Comedy
by George Axelrod
New York: Random House, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 149 pp. Printed dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in green and gilt with photograph mounted to front; green topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few minor nicks; mild general rubbing. Boards shelfworn. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy. Basis for the 1955 Billy Wilder film starring Tom Ewell and Marilyn... Read More
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Neville Chamberlain's Chimera or Nine Metaphors of Vision or Visions of Nine Metaphors
by Mark Axelrod
Milwaukee, WI: Membrane Press, 1979. Very Good. Milwaukee, WI: Membrane Press, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm); publisher's white staplebound wrappers; [12]pp.; text printed in red and blue throughout. Some toning to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. The author's first book.
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History of South Indian (Carnatic) Music: From Vedic Times to the Present
by R. Rangaramanuja Ayyangar
Madras: Mrs. Padma Varadan / R. Rangaramanuja Ayyangar, 1972. Good/Good. [Madras: Copies can be had from Mrs. Padma Varadan / Published by R. Rangaramanuja Ayyangar], 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pink printed dust jacket; [4],xii,368,ccclxx (i.e.clxxx)pp.; color and halftone plates throughout. Jacket heavily foxed, margins quite worn and spine cocked, rear jacket flap affixed to rear down, textblock shaken in binding. A Good copy only.
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Teppiche in der Belutsch-Tradition / Carpets in the Baluch Tradition
by Siawosch Azadi
Munchen: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1986. Fine/Near Fine. München: Klinkhardt & Biermann, [1986]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 214pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. A hint of edge wear, else Fine.
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![Ilhas: A Step-by-Step Guide [Limited Edition, Signed by Baake]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/373/737/1744737373.0.l.jpg)
Ilhas: A Step-by-Step Guide [Limited Edition, Signed by Baake]
by Frans Baake
Enschede, Netherlands: Frans Baake, 2002. Very Good. Enschede, Netherlands: Frans Baake, 2002. Limited Edition of 75 copies signed by the author at colophon, this being #10. Oblong octavo; light blue suede with red lettering; [16]pp. Color photographs. Soiling and mild rubbing to boards; Very Good. Artist's book -- abstract from the OCLC record reads, "'In this oblong book Baake used 8 characteristic photographs sized 10 x 29 cms. The first part of the book each photograph... Read More
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, dark red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); 178pp. A few chips to jacket margins with brief split to front fold; spine toned. Boards shelfworn with adjacent toning and mild bowing to boards approaching fore-edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Babitz's second work, ten stories from "that other planet, rickety myth, demi-paradise... Read More
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![The Quadrupeds of North America [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/620/833/1740833620.0.l.jpg)
The Quadrupeds of North America [Three Volume Set]
by John James Audubon and John Bachman
New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1856. Very Good. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1856. Second Edition. Three volumes; large octavos (27.5cm); publisher's full blind-tooled brown morocco, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; a hundred and fifty-five (155) hand-colored plates lithographed by J.T. Bowen, collated complete. Leather a bit scuffed and scratched, especially along spines, some rubbing to joints, spines uniformly darkened, scattered foxing to textblocks and plates, else a Very Good set. Contemporary ownership ex libris of R.E.... Read More
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Death in the Doll's House
by Hannah Lees; Lawrence Bachmann
New York: Random House, 1943. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 263 pp. Beige cloth boards stamped in purple; purple topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Moderate soiling to spine; lean to boards. Binding is sound. Off-setting to endpapers, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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Spirals
by Aaron Marc Stein [pseud. George Bagby]
New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1930. Very Good. New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's tan cloth lettered in red, dark red topstain; [6],298pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, spine very slightly cocked and rather toned, else a Very Good copy, topstain unfaded and contents clean and bright. The prolific crime author's first book, published when Stein was just twenty-four.
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Here Comes the Corpse
by George Bagby
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. Good+. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in purple; [8],272pp. Possibly ex-library with paper flaws to both pastedowns from previously removed elements as well as faint tape residue to boards; cloth a bit unevenly toned, spine especially so, corners bumped; a Good or better, still quite solid copy, albeit lacking dust jacket.
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Coffin Corner
by George Bagby
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime Club Selection. An Inspector Schmitt mystery featuring a dissipated heir to a football conglomerate,... Read More
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A Memoir of Captn W.T. Bate, R.N.
by John Baillie
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Good. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Later Printing. 16mo (6.25" x 4"); 278pp. Engraved frontis. Lavender cloth-covered boards with "Carter's Fireside Library" blindstamped to front and back panels and gilt lettering to spine. Boards heavily rubbed along edges and corners, with fading along edges, scuffing and some exposure along joints, and a dime-sized coffee-stain at bottom back corner; spine ends nudged and frayed, with gilt of spine lettering mostly... Read More
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Another Part of the Wood
by Beryl Bainbridge
London: Hutchinson, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 288pp. Light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket, jacket margins very slightly yellowed, small spot of discoloration to spine cloth, else Very Good and sound.
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On the Realisation of the Possible, and the Spirit of Aristotle
by F[rancis] W[illiam] Bain
London: James Parker And Co, 1899. Very Good. London: James Parker And Co., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 275 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure to corners and a one inch tear along top of spine. Mild general scuffing and some dust soiling along top edge. Rear board gives a little, but overall binding sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, and pages toned but unmarked. ... Read More
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Yixing Zisha / Yixing Purple Clay Ware
by Liang Baiquan
Beijing: China Cultural Relics Coordination Centre, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Beijing: China Cultural Relics Coordination Centre, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto; publisher's leatherette in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in gilt; 382pp.; color photographs throughout, publisher's cancel mounted to colophon. Extremities a bit rubbed and wrinkled from handling, corners gently bumped, a few faint surface scratches, old price sticker to rear jacket panel, else Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual text in Chinese and English. An invaluable reference.... Read More
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A Fine Madness
by Elliott Baker
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; 319pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket is worn and toned along edges, with a few small, closed tears (repaired internally with tape), bumping to spine ends, and some smudging to back. Vertical creases to front and back flaps. Boards are square with some fading along top edge. Gilt lettering to... Read More
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Ni por esas: John Baldessari
by John Baldessari
Madrid / Bordeaux: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / capcMusee d'art contemporain, 1989. Fine/Very Good. Madrid / Bordeaux: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / capcMusee d'art contemporain, 1989. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); publisher's card wrappers in pale blue printed dust jacket; 94pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Moderate wear to jacket at corners, bookseller ticket to rear jacket flap, else a Very Good or better example. Text almost entirely in French. Catalog of works by American... Read More
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