Quoi Ou
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. Wraps, in glassine dust jacket. One of "quelques exemplaires hors-commerce" copies. Book is fine, in fine dust jacket with just a little wrinkling along the edges.
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The Years That Were
by BECK, James M.
New York: Pageant Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Yellow cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket with slight wear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For my good friend Doug Fairbanks with every good wish for the years that will be. Jimmy Beck. Plaisance, Newport, R.I.”
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
by Bedier, Joseph
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1960 . Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Translated by Hilaire Beloc and Paul Rosenfeld with an introductction by Padraic Colum. Signed by illustrator, Serge Ivanoff. Excellent copy in fine slipcase.
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THE EMERALD CLASP
by Beeding, Francis
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket showing a woman in a pink dress falling through the air with a turqoise building in the background. DJ with chip to top of spine eliminating most of the title, but otherwise an attractive example. Book with evidence of removed library label to front endpaper, old library stamp to top of text block; rear gutter cracking.
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The Works of Max Beerbohm
by Beerbohm, Max; Lane, John (bibliography)
London / New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original bright red cloth, paper spine label. The author's first book, with a bibliography by John Lane. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped.
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Rossetti and His Circle
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 4to; pp. ix, plus 23 full-color plates tipped onto heavy cardstock leaves, with printed tissue-guards. "Made in Great Britain" printed on verso of title-page. Boards faintly rubbed; spine tips and corners bumped and scuffed. Contemporary gift inscription on FFEP, otherwise internally bright and clean. Caricatures of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Fifty Caricatures by Max Beerbohm
by Beerbohm, Max
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1913. Hardcover. Very Good+. Green cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on upper board, gilt-stamped lettering on spine. With b/w caricatures tipped onto grey heavy cardstock leaves. Spine a bit tanned, lightly frayed at tips; bottom corners bumped.
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A Survey
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; pp. viii, plus 51 plates with printed tissue-guards and tipped-on illustrations. First edition. Lettering on spine just a bit faded; spine tips and corners rubbed; VG+ overall, in custom mylar dust jacket.
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And Even Now
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Yellow cloth, paper spine label; dust jacket. Spine tips and corners bumped. Dust jacket a little wrinkled along the edges but still a very nice copy.
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The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good+. Light grey paper over boards, backed in gilt-lettered red cloth. With color frontispiece. Some light rubbing tanning along edges of boards; bottom corners bumped; spine tips a little frayed.
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The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Light grey paper over boards, backed in gilt-lettered red cloth; dust jacket. With color frontispiece. Some light rubbing and bumping along spine and edges of boards. Dust jacket a little wrinkled along the edges, with tiny chips at head of spine extening onto top edge. A nice copy, with bookseller's ticket on front paste-down. First separate edition, originally published in "A Variety of... Read More
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Around the Theatres (Volumes I and II)
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good+. Two volumes, both in original cloth (1, bright blue, 2, bright red) with paper spine label. Volumes from larger set of the "Works of Max Beerbohm," limited to 780 sets. Spines a little sunned; spine tips and corners gently bumped; light foxing on prelims, terminals, and along edges of text block. Previous owners' (tasteful) bookplates on front paste-down.
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Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story
by Beerbohm, Max
Baltimore: The Limited Editions Club, 1960. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by the illustrator, George Him. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase.
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Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten, als Leitfaden zu seinen offentlichen Vorlesungen entworfen. (2 volume set)
by Beer, G.J.
Vienna, 1813-17. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1813-1817. Medical library bookplates and a few stamps. Contemporary notes in pencil of a Dr. George Frick (sp?), with a note of explanation on the front endpaper of volume 1. 19th century 1/2 leather and boards. Bindings worn. 8vo. xx, 636; xvi, 680, li, [1 blank], [ads 4] pp. 6 of 9 engraved folding plates (5 hand-colored of diseased eyes - 32 of the total of 44 that is called for... Read More
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The String Quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven: Historic and Analytic Commentaries
by Beethoven, Ludwig van; Shepherd, Arthur
[Cleveland]: [Horace Carr, The Printing Press], 1935. Hardcover. Fair. Contemporary morocco; 8vo; pp. 91. Inscribed by the author to the Budapest Quartet. Spine dry and chipped; front board detached. Internally nice and clean -- an excellent candidate for rebinding. Sold as is.
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Description Historique de Paris, et de Ses Plus Beaux Monumens (Complete Set of 3 Volumes)
by Beguillet, [Edme]; Martinet, F. N. [Francois Nicolas] (engravings)
Paris et Dijon: les Auteurs, et Frantin, 1779-1781. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary mottled calf, lavishly gilt-stamped spine, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label, original decorative endpapers; 8vo (120x 202 mm), 3 volumes; with half-titles, 3 additional titles, 2 allegorical frontispieces, 50 plates (39 of them with double views of Paris), and 2 full-page vignettes. Some very light scuffing at spine tips and along joints; occasional light toning and marginal soiling. A handsome set,... Read More
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Slottsteatrarna Pa Drottningholm Och Gripsholm. [Court Theatres of Drottningholm and Gripsholm.].
by BEIJER, Agne
Malmo: Swedish Architectural History Society and John Kroon, 1933. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong folio. A collection of plates along with a descriptive booklet by John Kroon (19 pages in English; missing the Swedish pamphlet), housed in publisher's folding card box slipcase. Plates numbered 1-41 and I-LXXXI. A nice copy.
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Au pied de l'Echafaud [At the Foot of the Scaffold]. Recits, traduits du russe de Andreev, Anoutchine, Boretzky, Korolenko, Semenov, Tolstoi, Wladimirov -- Essays on [Public] Capital Punishment
by Beinstock, J.-W.; Skarvant, A. (eds.)
Paris: Mercure de France, 1911. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Quarter mottled cloth and marbled paper, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 497, [4] (TOC, colophon). Binding overall just a bit scuffed; internally clean.
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Magic Motorways
by Bel Geddes, Norman
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Original cloth. 4to; pp. 297, illustrated in b/w throughout, with photographs, diagrams, and plans fo the general social concepts that developed through Geddes' stewardship of the FUTURAMA exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Spine a touch darkened, pastedowns foxed; overall, a very nice copy, much nicer than usual in the original fragile dust jacket, lightly worn with some quite light edge chipping... Read More
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Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine, October 1937
by Bellamy, Francis Rufus (ed.)
New York, 1937. Paperback. Good+. Wraps; pp. [641]-766. Covers chipped at extremities, with large chip out of front cover (eliminating some of the title lettering); light chipping along bottom edge of pp. [641]- 656, not infringing upon text itself. Includes a poem by Robert Frost, an excerpt from "A Green Bough" by Willim Faulkner, and stories from numerous contributors.
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Sir Charles Bell's Manuscript of Drawings of the Arteries [AND] Charles Bell and the Origin of His Engravings of the Arteries
by Bell, Charles; Jones, Colonel Harold Wellington
Editions Medicina Rara, 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gilt-ruled quarter cloth and paper, lettering stamped in gilt on spine; in slipcase. Number 862 from a limited edition of 2800 copies. Facsimile of Bell's original manuscript, illustrated in color throughout. With newsletter of Medicina Rara and a 10-pp. essay by Jones (reprinted from "Medical Life," 1937), both laid-in. Some light soiling to rear cover of essay, else fine. Books is tight, bright, and clean.... Read More
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The Bridgewater Treatises, On the Power and Wisdom of God as Manifested in the Creation; Treatise IV. The Hand, Its Mechanism, and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design
by BELL, CHARLES
London: William Pickering, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition of one of the greatest classics on the hand, written as part of the Bridgewater Treatises series. 8vo. xv, 288pp. Contemporary calf, richly gilt spine and borders, a little rubbed. Front board detached. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Discusses anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy of the hand, its utility and adaptive importance, substitution of other organs for hand, the sense of touch, kinesthetics, et cetera. Gordon-Taylor... Read More
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The Arab War
by Bell, Gertrude
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. One of 500 copies. Binding lightly soiled and spotted, with uneven fading to spine and boards. Internally clean.
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The Honour of Chivalry, or, the Famous and Delectable History of Don Bellianis of Greece...translated out of Italian. Three parts in two.
by Bellianis
London, 1703. Hardcover. Very Good. Later 18th century calf, rebacked. Collates complete. Signature to title of R. P. Gillies. Bookplates of John Fairley and Kenneth Rapoport. Printed on cheap paper, foxed and stained. Mentioned in Don Quixote as one of the saved romances, complete English translations are scarce on the market.
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PROGRAM SIGNED BY PLACIDO DOMINGO. G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos. Norma: Lyric Tragedy in Two Acts (Signed)
by Bellini, Vincenzo (Music); Romani, Felice (Libretto); Weaver, William (Trans.); [Domingo, Placido]
New York / London: G. Schirmer, 1969. Paperback. Near Fine. Staple-bound wraps. Inscribed on the title-page by Placido Domingo. Some light rubbing and scuffing along edges of wraps, else fine.
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