Typescript for a grand European tour, 1894.
by [Travel - typescript]
1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Black cloth. 44pp. In part, "Left New York June 6th, 1894, on steamship "City of Paris...arrived at Southampton...Saw the crown jewels...the beheading block where Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, and other were beheaded...Left for Paris at 10am on Orient Express." Many foreign words are mispelled/americanized. Detailed descriptions from England, Germany, Sweden, France, etc. The typescript ends: "the voyage is over."
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Symbola Divina & Humana Pontificum Imperatorum Regum....
by TYPOTIUS, Jacobus (Jacob Typot) (1540-1604)
Arnheim: Johann Fridericus Hagius, 1666. Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo (135 x 70mm). Pagination: [1], 398pp., [26, index]. Signatures: *1; A-R(12); S(7 of 8, lacking final blank, one leaf of index unopened). Full-page engraved architectural frontispiece of sacred muses holding holy attributes and 176 plates with 350 devices engravings by Aegidus Sadeler of Prague (1568-1629), laid out in ovals and medallions. 19th-century morocco with gilt monogram cipher of interlocking Cs as cornerpieces and to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges... Read More
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An Essay on Military Law, and the Practice of Courts-Martial
by Tytler, Alex Fraser & Charles Lamb.
Dublin: R. E. Mercier, 1800. Hardcover. Poor. Boards detached. 234 pp. + correction leaf. Stamps of "Old Guard". Uncommon imprint. Sold as is.
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Stinnes i ego kontserny [Stinnes and Its Concerns]
by Ufermann, P.; Hughlin, K.; Radek, Karl (foreword)
Moscow / Leningrad: Ekonomicheskaia zhizn, 1924. Paperback. Very Good+. Original illustrated wraps printed in yellow, black, and white, depicting Stinnes as German spider; pp. 169, unopened. A few small chips along edges of covers and at spine tips.
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La Novela de las Horas y de los Dias. Notas intimas de un Pintor
by Ugarte, Manuel
Paris: Garner Hermanos, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue cloth over boards with lettering and detail stamped in gilt on upper board and spine. Inscribed by Ugarte on the half-title page. Boards faintly rubbed; gilt faded along spine; corners and edges of boards lightly bumped. Attractive.
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Love Sonnets
by Untermeyer, Louis (ed.); Shahn, Ben (illus.)
New York: Harmony Books, Crown, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good+. Glossy pictorial cloth; 4to; pp. [46], illustrated in full-color throughout. Boards lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; spine tips and corners bumped. Internally bright and clean.
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The Forms of Poetry: A Pocket Dictionary of Verse
by Untermeyer, Louis
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Black cloth, paper spine label; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. vii, [1], 166. Boards and spine tips lightly rubbed; discreet ownership signature on FFEP. Dust jacket a little rubbed and soiled; spine tanned, and lightly chipped at tips; price-clipped. An excellent working copy. Includes a bibliography.
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Marry Me
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The limited issue, one of 300 copies numbered and signed by Updike. A lovely copy in DJ and publisher's slipcase.
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Problems and Other Stories
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The limited issue, this being copy 44 of 350 copies numbered and signed by Updike. A solid copy in DJ with a few nicks along the edges; housed in publisher's slipcase.
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Bath After Sailing
by Updike, John
Stevenson, Ct: Country Squires Books, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. An out of series unsigned copy of Updike's first limited edition, a single poem, for which 125 numbered copies were signed by the author. This is copy no.135, numbered as such, with an inscription from H. B. White at the limitation, which reads "135, But, alas, it is imperfect & unsigned except by yr humble subt H. B. White October 21, 1968. Single leaf, folded twice and... Read More
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Roger's Version
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Nice copy in DJ. Briefly inscribed by John Updike.
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Roger's Version
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. The limited issue, this being copy 165 of 350 copies numbered and signed by Updike. Housed in publisher's slipcase, this copy is as new, unopened in shrink wrap.
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S. A Novel.
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nice copy in DJ. Signed by John Updike.
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Picked Up Pieces
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The limited issue, this being copy 157 of 250 copies numbered and signed by Updike. Lovely copy in DJ and housed in publisher's slipcase. The author's second collection of non-fiction.
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Rabbit Redux
by Updike, John
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A fine copy in full brown leather, signed by the author. Previous owner's blindstamp to front endpaper, otherwise fine.
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Self-Consciousness. Memoirs.
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nice copy in DJ or the first trade edition. Signed by John Updike.
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The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures
by UPDIKE, JOHN
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, publisher's ¼ cloth, spine foot bumped; dust jacket, folds rubbed, shallow chipping to head and foot of spine panel; faded inked inscription on front flyleaf. Updike's first book. Signed by him on the title page.
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Terrorist
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth, lettering stamped in silver on upper board and spine; illustrated dust jacket. A nice association copy, with a typed, signed postcard from Updike to Louis Auchincloss adhered to the FFEP. It opens "Dear Louis: This new novel has attracted more suicide bombers than the magnificent Michiko [Kakutani], so your kind and cheerful card was very welcome..."
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Star Atlas, Containing Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, and Clusters, Nebulae and Double Stars Visible in Small Telescopes. Together with Variable Stars, Red Stars, Characteristic Star Groups, Ancient Constellation Figures, and an Explanatory Text
by Upton, Winslow
Boston and London: Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press, 1896. Hardcover. Good. Mottled brown cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; with 6 small maps showing various constellation figures, and 6 double-page maps. Boards a bit scuffed; crack in the gutter resulting in double-page Map torn in half, short closed tear at tail of remaining double-page maps. The double-page maps have some constellations neatly traced out in ink by a previous owner -- sold as is.
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Zapiski gubernatora, Kishinev, 1903-1904: Ocherki proshlago [Sketches of the Past], Vol. 1
by Urusov, Prince S. D.
Moscow: Sablin, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good+. Half cloth and marbled paper; 12mo; pp. [10], 377, ix. Binding a bit rubbed; contents somewhat tanned, but clean and unmarked. Memoirs of an Ex-Governor of Bessarabia.
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Krasivoy devishke, stikhi [To a Beautiful Girl, Poems]
by Utkin, Iosif (1903-1944); Zharov, Aleksandr; Bezymensky
Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1927. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps, floral motif printed in red, lettering in black; pp. 64. Spine and corners just a little chipped; marginal soiling from rear cover forward to p. 23. Still, pretty.
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Son Altesse la Femme
by Uzanne, Octave; Gervex, Henri; Gonzales, J. A.; Kratke, L.; et al; (numerous illustrators)
Paris: A. Quantin, 1885. Paperback. Very Good+. Plain paper wraps with full-color illustrated jacket, in glassine. Illustrated throughout, with vignettes and tissue-guarded full-color plates. Includes a nice band of placeholder ribbons. Some light browning along edges of text block; glassine just a little chipped at spine tips and corners; first four pages starting. Nice.
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Flood
by Vachss, Andrew H.
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985. First Edition, First Printing, with complete number line. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 341. Book is fine. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; just a little wrinkled along the edges. An excellent copy of the author's first book.
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Kral Ubu
by [Vaclav Havel] Jarry, Alfred
Prague, 1966. Paperback. Good. Original square wraps; spine worn. Black and white photographs throughout. Inscribed by Jan Grossman to Vaclav Havel in 1967. And then inscribed in 1968 from Havel to George Voskovec. In Czech.
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Theatro Moral de Toda la Philosophia de los Antiguos y Modernos
by Vaenius, Octavius [aka Otto van Veen] (1556-1629)
Brussels: Foppens, 1669. Hardcover. Fair. Folio, lacking first two leaves, *1 & *2 (one of which is the title) and two text leaves (F3 & H2). 207 pp. Engraved portrait of the dedicatee and numerous engraved emblems throughout. Defective copy of this rare emblem book, sold as is. Part one only, without the Enchiridion de Epicteto Gentil, with evidence of an interesting cancellation on page 81 (leaf L1) featuring two letterpress slips: at the top the headline, page... Read More
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