The Lone Wolf's Son
by Louis Joseph Vance
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. First Edition, with no subsequent printings listed. Octavo; 304pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price; boards in red cloth with black lettering. Jacket shows a few closed tears at edges and folds along with some adjacent rubbing and creases and some general toning / smudging to surface. Boards are bright and square with nudging at spine ends and a few surface smudges. Front board opens... Read More
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Pictorial Receipt accomplished in manuscript
by Vandyke & Downing, Coach & Harness Makers
Philadelphia: Vandyke & Downing, 1836. Very Good. Philadelphia: Vandyke & Downing, 1836. Pictorial printed broadside (15.5x19.5cm.) accomplished in manuscript; top edge adorned with three small woodcut illustrations depicting two types of coaches and a pile of luggage. Small closed tear at top edge towards left-hand corner not approaching text, old paper remnants to verso from having been previously mounted, subsequent toning showing through to recto, else a Very Good example. Receipt dated Philadelphia, May 5, 1836, acknowledging... Read More
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Le Bonheur: Principe et fin de la morale aristotelicienne
by Jean Vanier
Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 1965. Very Good. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1965. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in brown and black; 498pp. Moderate wear from handling, spine a bit toned, textblock very slightly starting to separate from wrappers along front gutter, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good. The late Catholic Canadian author's first book, based on his PhD thesis written at the Institute Catholique de Paris, translated a year later... Read More
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Gara-Yaka: The Story of a Cheetah
by Desmond Varaday
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 192pp.; color photographic frontispiece and four leaves of plates, half-tone text illus. throughout. Dust jacket quite cockled from exposure to old plastic jacket covering (now removed), tiny chip at spine foot, ownership ex libris of a Peter E. Blau laid in (remnants of perished glue to front pastedown), else a Very... Read More
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![The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language... [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/467/191/1297191467.0.l.jpg)
The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language... [Three Volume Set]
by [Various]; George Cruikshank [illus.]; Robert Cruikshank [illus.]
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Very Good. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]. Three Volume Set. Octavos. 448 p.; 448p.; 448p. Humorous frontispiece to each volume, with additional frontispiece to volume 1. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and new endpapers. Light soiling to spine. Worn and cracked at spine ends. Bindings are sound and interiors unmarked. Includes songs amatory, bacchanalian, masonic, and glees, among... Read More
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![The Art and Politics of Science [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/916/057/1686057916.0.l.jpg)
The Art and Politics of Science [Inscribed and Signed]
by Harold Varmus
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; xii,[2],315pp.; four leaves of halftone photographs printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear and a few faint surface scratches to dust jacket, textblock very lightly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. Memoirs of the 1989 recipient of the Nobel Prize... Read More
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Ferus
by Robert Dean; Roberta Bernstein; Kirk Varnedoe
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. Very Good +. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Quarto (28.5x25x2cm); 145pp. One hundred and thirty-one color plates reproducing important modernist art; additional B&W documentary photographs throughout. Photographic boards with sage-green spine, lettered in white. Corners lightly bumped. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. The Ferus Gallery was a Los Angeles hot-spot and high-spot gallery from 1957 to 1966, during which it displayed artists... Read More
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Nasser and his Generation
by P.J. Vatikiotis
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 375pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edge with some minor scuffing. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and interior otherwise unmarked; Very Good.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
by Thorstein Veblen
New York: Macmillan Company, 1899. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's dark green cloth, top edge gilt, gilt-lettered spine; viii,400,[2]pp. Spine ends and corners a bit rubbed with brief fraying to former, spine slightly cocked and front hinge discreetly reinforced, contemporary Sydney bookseller ticket to front pastedown and contemporary rubberstamp of a public free library council on pp. 5 and 25 (otherwise free of any library markings), some very brief scattered soil... Read More
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls; A Play in Three Acts
by Martin Vale [pseud. of Marguerite Veiller]
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1938. Stated Second Impression. Octavo; 95 pp. followed by one page of advertisements. Bright orange wrappers with text in black. Covers show some general smudging and a bit of rubbing at spine ends. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is holding soundly. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, a nice copy of a scarce work later adapted as a movie of the same name... Read More
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Velleii Paterculi Quae Supersunt
by Velleius Paterculus; Johann Georg Walch [ed.]
Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumpt. Ioh. Lud. Gleditschii & M.G. Weidmanni, 1712. Very Good. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumpt. Io. Lud. Gleditschii & M.G. Weidmanni, 1712. First Walch Edition. 12mo (14cm); full contemporary parchment, neat manuscript spine titling, all edges stained black; [10],450,[114]pp. (collated, presumed complete); engraved frontispiece of the goddess Minerva, title page printed in red and black. Some staining to parchment, contemporary ownership signature of a Cellarius and small 19th-century rubber-stamp "A. Scriba" to title page; a Very Good to... Read More
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Practical Reflection
by J. David Velleman
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dark green pictorial dust jacket; x,332pp. A hint of shelf wear, boards very slightly bowed, else a Near Fine copy.
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The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories
by [Edward Gorey] Carol Verburg
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2024. Very Good. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2024. First Edition, with full numberline. Quarto (28.5cm); 256pp; color illus. throughout. Publisher's illustrated boards with debossed silver lettering and maroon velvet curtain spine. Boards are sturdy and square, with one shallow line impression at bottom front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Nedda: Bozzetto Siciliano
by Giovanni Verga
Milano: Gaetano Brigola Editore, 1874. Very Good. Milano: Gaetano Brigola Editore, 1874. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; early 20th century parchment over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black; 61pp. Moderate wear to boards, textblock significantly toned due to poor paper quality, else Very Good and sound. Devastating novella by the Italian novelist Giovanni Verga (18401-1922),this work marking the author's break from the Scapigliatura (bohemian) movement that dominated his two previous works as he ventured into the... Read More
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Observations et Remarques de Chirurgie Pratique Précédées d'une Nouvelle Methode d'Amputer
by Remon de Vermale
Londres: s.i., 1733. Very Good -. Londres [London]: s.i., n.d., [ca. 1733?]. Quarto (21.5cm); full contemporary roan, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers; [10],xxiv,93pp.; two steel engraved plates by Vermale, one folding. Leather a bit rubbed and dried at extremities, spine label perished, brief early scribble to title page, Plate no. 1 separated but present. About Very Good overall. Uncommon, possibly pirated, treatise by the military surgeon who served as Major Surgeon... Read More
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Post-Biblical Jewish Studies
by Geza Vermes
Leiden, Netherlands: E.J Brill, 1975. Very Good. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J Brill, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 246pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Ex-library. A touch of rubbing to edges; ghosts of labels to spine and rear. Binding sound. Institutional bookplate to front pastedown; remnants of library pocket and bit of adhesive to rear endpaper; stamp to copyright page, else unmarked; Very Good. Volume 8 of the publisher's Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity... Read More
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![Hillsboro People [Inscribed and Signed by Canfield]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/217/929/1592929217.0.l.jpg)
Hillsboro People [Inscribed and Signed by Canfield]
by Dorothy Canfield [stories]; Sarah N. Cleghorn [verses]
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. Very Good. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth; v,[1],346,[2],[4](ads)pp. Light shelf wear to cloth extremities, textblock margins a bit dust-soiled, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper, "For Jon Amy [?] / With friendly greetings from Dorothy Canfield Fisher / Arlington Vermont, July, 1944.
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Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book
by Kate Greenaway [illus.]; Mrs. Sale Barker [verses]
London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1900. Very Good. London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca. 1900. Small square 16mo (9.5cm.); full contemporary reddish-brown gilt-tooled morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [4],126pp.; color frontispiece, eleven leaves of plates, illus. throughout text printed in brown within green border. Front cover leather a bit discolored, brief ink splatters to rear cover, front joint rubbed and hinge cracked but holding; later ink presentation and numerous birthdays noted throughout... Read More
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![Spirits of the Earth [The Amazing Spider-Man Graphic Novel] [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/237/1768237663.0.l.jpg)
Spirits of the Earth [The Amazing Spider-Man Graphic Novel] [Signed]
by Charles Vess
New York: Marvel Comics, 1990. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Marvel Comics, 1990. Stated First Printing, with full number line. Slim quarto (28.3cm); publisher's leatherette, pictorial endpapers, in white pictorial dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly full color illus. A tiny bit of rubbing to board corners, else a Near Fine example. Signed by author/illustrator Charles Ness at head of title page.
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![La pensée de Jonathan Edwards: Avec une concordance des diferentes editions de ses Oeuvres [with two TLS from Veto laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/662/1537662253.0.l.jpg)
La pensée de Jonathan Edwards: Avec une concordance des diferentes editions de ses Oeuvres [with two TLS from Veto laid in]
by [Jonathan Edwards] Miklos Veto
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. Very Good. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. New Revised Edition. Octavo; 556pp. French-language throughout. Printed white glossy wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn but with no chips or tears. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Two typed, signed letters by Veto to Edwards scholar Wilson Kimnach laid in -- the first, dated December 22 1991 on Universite de Rennes I letterhead, is a warm and chatty Christmas greeting with some discussion of translation.... Read More
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Set of three promotional postcards for first VH1 Hip Hop Honors program
by [Hip Hop; VH1]
New York: GoCARD Postcard Advertising, 2004. Near Fine. New York: GoCARD Postcard Advertising, 2004. Three postcards (10.75x15.25cm); mild rubbing; postally unused; Near Fine. "Today's reigning stars pay tribute to hip hop's visionaries." Promotional material for an early attempt to codify a hip-hop Golden Age; features images of 2Pac, Run-DMC, and KRS-One. At the show itself, performers included Fat Joe, Beastie Boys, Nas, and Sugarhill Gang.
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The Minerva Club: The Department of Patterns and Others
by Victor Canning; John Higgins [ed.]
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2009. Near Fine/Fine. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2009. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 223pp. Boards very slightly bowed at fore-edge, else a Fine copy. Collection of 24 short stories for the first time in book form, most of which first appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and other pulp 'zines of the day. Part of Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics Series.
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![The Battle of Waterloo: A Romantic Narrative [Limited Edition, Signed by Middleton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/423/871/1619871423.0.l.jpg)
The Battle of Waterloo: A Romantic Narrative [Limited Edition, Signed by Middleton]
by Victor Hugo; Drew Middleton [intro.]; Reginald Colby [epilogue]; Edouard Detaille [illus.]
Westport, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Near Fine. Westport, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1977. First Thus, Limited to 1600 copies of which this is no. 1495. Quarto (28 cm); [8], 99pp. Publisher's olive green calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, in original paper-covered slipcase and glassine jacket; frontispiece, five (5) leaves of plates, additional illus. throughout text. Jacket toned and missing portions of spine and minor wear to and sunning to slipcase, else a... Read More
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Iconography of Power
by Victoria E. Bonnell [ed.]
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 363pp. Publisher's dust jacket; boards bound in black wax cloth with silver stamping to spine. Red endsheets. Dust jacket shows surface-level scratching and scuffing with minor bumping to spine ends. Boards bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean with sharp edges. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. A Very Good to Near Fine copy in like... Read More
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![Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs [Facsimile]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/573/814/1306814573.0.l.1.jpg)
Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs [Facsimile]
by E[meric] E[ssex] Vidal
Buenos Aires [London]: Editorial Viau SRL [R. Ackermann], 1943. Very Good. Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL, 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470, of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii + 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates, including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock, with front cover reproducing original 1820 allegorical frame in brown. Nude spine. Binding toned, minimally soiled, all... Read More
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