Victorian Furniture Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium
by Ames, Kenneth L (Editor)
Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, 1983. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 254 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated: photographs and prints. Owner inscription.
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For Robert Penn Warren 24 * IV * 80
by Ammons .A.R. et al.
Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Medium gray cloth, front cover paper label. Fine in matching fine quarter gray and marbled slipcase. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 23 cm. Laid-in a woodcut by Anne Carter Pollard, copy 40 of 75 and signed by her. The contributors include A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, Richard Eberhart, George Garrett, John Hollander, William Meredith, Reynolds Price, Rosanna Warren, and Richard Wilbur. Each tribute of ten printed in red and black and... Read More
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Anacreontis Teii Odaria Praefixo Commentario Quo Poetae Genus Traditur
by Anacreon
Parma: Bodoni, 1785. Hardcover. Contemporary marbled paper over pasteboard with paper spine label. Very good in red cloth clam shell box. [6], LXXXII, 103, [1]. 30.5 x 23 cm. Engraved title followed by a second page with engraved vignette at head, the entire work printed in capital letters. Wide text margins. Latin commentary followed by Greek text. Commentary written by P. Paciaudi. DIBDIN, Vol. I, p.151. "There is a copy in the British Museum.... Read More
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Andersen Kalender 1911; Translated by Hugo Salus
by Andersen, Hans Christian
Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream decorated stiff wrappers. Very good. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum gray and gilt colors, each border in different designs. Front cover and title page are also gilt decorated with latter a... Read More
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Thesee
by Gide Andre
Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. printed stiff wrappers with original glassine. Fine in near fine chemise in moderately worn slipcase. Andreu, Mariano. 127 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 396 of 329 sur velin de Lana. 28 original black and white lithographs by Mariano Andreu, a Spanish lithographer, painted and stage designer who produced approximately 30 "Livres de Luxe." His stage designs -- sets and costumes -- included work for Shakespeare (London... Read More
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Silence; Translated from the Russian by John Cournos
by Andreiyeff, Leonidas
Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pale gray boards, front cover paper label printed in red and black. Very good. 32 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Andreyev, a depressive who attempted suicide more than once, led a tortured yet prolific life. He came into his own around the turn of the century after Gorki gave him some encouragement. Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background. Cournos in his Foreword called... Read More
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Valenti Angelo Author + Illustrator + Printer An Autobiographical Story
by Angelo, Valenti
Bonxville: Meriden Gravure Co, Nd. First edition. Wraps. Orig. dark gray decorated wrappers. Fine. Angelo, Valenti. Unpaginated. 25 x 16 cm. Title page printed in red and black, a career in his own words he calls "a most wonderful adventure.
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Old England's Worthies: A Gallery of Portraits, From Authentic Copies, Of The Most Eminent Statesmen, Lawyers, Warriors, Men Of Letters And Science And Artists Of Our Country et al.
by Anonymous
London: Charles Cox, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Very good. 272 pages. 38 x 26 cm. 12 colored full page engravings and a host of woodcuts -- multiple head shots of the notables described herein. Scattered toning mostly at margins and some offsetting of latter to text. Binding tight and firm. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities.
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Errors and their Consequences; Or, Memoirs Of An English Family
by Anonymous
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half maroon calf, marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid-down. Very good. 2 vols. [XX] 389, 318. pages. 9.2 X 5.5 cm. Errata in second volume rear. The preface indicates the writer is male, also, in the preface notes seeking advise from two friends, then throwing their suggestions in the round bin with the following: "I had mistaken their characters, they had mistaken mine." A a... Read More
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The Tournament; Or, Days of Chivalry
by Anonymous
London: Printed For William Sams, 1823. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown calf, flat spine with label lettered in gilt. Very good. [iv], 59, [1] pp. 23 x 13 cm. 24 hand coloured copperplates attributed to Thomas Rowlandson, and doggerel verse in the style of frequent collaborator William Combe. A rare colour plate book in the medieval chivalric genre. Probably inspired by the success of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe published in 1819 and the Regency craze for all things medieval... Read More
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Les Amans Heureux, Trompez, Malheureux
by Anonymous
Paris: Chez Claude Barbin, 1683. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown calf rebacked in late19th century matching morocco. Near fine. 165 pages [*2, A8-L8]. 18 x 12 cm. Twenty-eight etched plates, including 3 part title plates, each part containing eight tales of the "Happy, Deceived, Unfortunate Lovers"; a precursor to later romantic novels. This copy bound sequentially -- Trompez, Malheureux, Heureux. Includes a six page catalogue of books in English printed for William Cademan, which references this title and... Read More
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Two Ladies
by Ansell, Charles R.A. (1752- ?)
Np: Np, Nd. Very good. 29 x 23.5 cm. sepia stipple engraving by Edmund Scott (1758-1815), a pupil of Francesco Bartolozzi.
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Verve The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature (1937-1960)
by Anthonioz, Michael
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Fine in fine dust ''''wrapper. 297 pages. 37 x 27 cm. Important bibliography with a host of color and black and white full page plates. Index and Selected Bibliography.
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History of Woman Suffrage
by Anthony, Susan B. & Elizabeth Cady Stanton And Matilda Joslyn Gage (Editors)
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1902. Hardcover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth backstrips lettered in gilt. Very good. 4 Vols. 878, 959, 1013 (Appendix & Index), 1144 ( Appendix & Index) pages. 23.5 x 16,5 cm. Second edition of Vol. 1. First editions of Vols. II-IV. Illustrated with portraits of women. Vol. I plates dampstained below the portrait images. Texts of all four volumes clean and fresh. All plates protected with tissue guards. Ex Library Middlebrough Public Library of Mass. Library... Read More
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karel appel expose ses oeuvres au palais des beaux-arts a bruxelles
by Appel, Karel
Amsterdam: Np, 1953. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 5 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Signed copy by Appel in blue ink. Six black and white plates. Title page carries his handwritten Paris address in blue ink and a pencil notation "from the library of photographies Anrold Newman. Text in French by Michel Tapie. Clean. bright copy.
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Remarks On Currency And Banking; Having Reference To The Present Derangement Of The Circulating Medium In The U.S.
by Appleton, Nathan
Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1857. Third edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Slight damp-staining at head not affecting text. Cloth. Orig. printed tan wrappers bound in. Very good. 63 pages. The"Dictionary of American Biography," notes, "Appleton wrote his masterly pamphlet, `Currency and Banking' (1841) to discuss the principles of sound finance and to show the danger from an institution of so great power." Sounds familar.
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La grande Gaite Avec 2 dessins D'Yves Tanguy
by Aragon, Louis
Paris: Gallimard, 1929. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. black and red stiff wrappers. Very good. Tanguy, Yves. 122 pages. 23.4 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 138 of 150 on verge de arches paper, of a total edition of 240. Aragon, a founding member of Surrealism and noted communist intellectual. Two surrealist, tipped-in black and white lithographs by Yves Tanguy with tissue guards. Partly unopened, free endpaper toned, dampstain lower right corned not effecting text or images. ... Read More
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Diane Arbus Magazine Work
by Arbus, Doon and Marvin Israel
New York: Aperture, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial grey and white boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Arbus, Diane. 175 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 151 black and white photographs. A collective portrait of sixties' style and culture. Bibliography,
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The Book of Bridges; (Illustrated by Jesse King)
by Arcambeau, Edme
London and Glasgow: Cowans And Gray, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. taupe cloth, front cover colored paper inset, beveled edges. Near fine. 149 pages. 25.5 x 19 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000. Eighteen full page color illustrations with lettered tissue guards of French bridges. . King was a Scottish illustrator known for her illustrated children's books. She also designed bookplates, jewelry and fabric, and painted pottery. King was one of the artists known as the Glasgow... Read More
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French School: Design Proposal 20 Rue De La Charbonniere
by Merle Architects
NP: NP, ND. Fine. Archirtectural Drawing framed: 19 5/8 x 16 inches, watercolor and ink on paper. Small nicks to frame.
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Catalogue Of The Royal Institute Of British Architects Library
by Royal Institute of British Architects
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine. 2 vols.. 1138 & 514 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Originally published 1937. Vol. I: Author Catalogue and Vol. II: Classified subject index, and Alphabetical subject index to classified section. Bright, very fresh set.
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Errant Thoughts From An Erratic Pen Unfettered By Poetic Yoke
by Ardenghi, Anna Fitch
New York: Oliphant Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orange boards. backstrip lettered in gilt Fine in fine yellow boards slipcase. Books-on-Books. 16 leaves. 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition one of 200 printed on French arches text. Errata slip. Signed presentation copy by the author to Mrs.Coyle "with abiding affection" by the author.
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III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama
by Arias, Alfredo L.
Panama City: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 86 pages. 10 x 9". Host of color plates -- photographs of excellent quality. Modern Panamian art, list of artists with biographies. Text in Spanish.
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The Birds
by Aristophanes
New York: The Thisle Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black calf, decorated parchment sides. Fine in fine decorated chemise in fine slipcase. 418 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 1298 of 1500 signed by Marian Parry. Pen and ink drawings by Marian Parry in colors and black and white. With an Introduction by Dudley Fitts. Laid-in the Monthly Letter of the LEC, and the "Number Eight" LEC slip. 60 double fold pages. NEWMAN & WICHE 299.... Read More
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Churches Of France
by Arms, Dorothy Noyes & John Taylor Arms
New York: Macmillan, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. aquamarine boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Fine in original printed dust wrapper. Spine of latter spotted. Arms, John Taylor. 179 pages. 29.5 x 22.5 cm. With fifty-one reproductions of etchings and drawings by John Taylor Arms. Reproductions are brilliant and with lettered tissue guards. Wide text margins, interior contents clean, fresh and bright.
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