Nicholas And The Fast-moving Diesel
by Ardizzone, Edward
New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and in color. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the title stamped in dark green on the spine and an illustration stamped in dark green on the front cover. The dust jacket has a small closed tear to the head of the spine and some minor chips at the extremities, otherwise very good condtion. The text is clean and bright.
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The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man
by Ardrey, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Remainder mark on the bottom edge. The dust jacket has a clipped corner and minor chips and closed tears to the extremities.
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The Assault.; Translated by Andrew Hurley
by Arenas, Reinaldo
New York: Viking Press, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original boards with a cloth spine stamped in silver.
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Sister Wolf
by Arensberg, Ann
Arensberg, Ann. SISTER WOLF. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. Bound in white quarter cloth and paper boards with title stamped in gold on spine and author's initials blind stamped on front cover. Dust jacket. Fine condition.
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Broken Covenant:; American Foreign Policy and the Crisis Between the U.S. and Israel
by Arens, Moshe
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in quarter blue cloth and blue boards with the spine stamped in gilt.
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Henry Moore. Translated By Daniel Gichter
by Argan, Giulio Carlo
New York, Harry N. Abrams, [1971]. Cloth, dust jacket. Very good.
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Arnaldo Pomodoro at the Belvedere Fort
by Argan, Giulio Carlo; Italo Mussa
De Luca Editore, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in white. Illustrated slipcase. Inscribed and signed by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Photographs by Carlo Orsi. 11 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches.
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The Shoemakers' Holiday (vocal Score) (bh. Bk. 702); A Ballad-Opera based on the play by Thomas Dekker
by Argento, Dominick, music; adaptation and additional lyrics by John Olon
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1971. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers.
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Christopher Sly: Comic Opera In Two Scenes And An Interlude (bh. Bk. 578); Based on the induction to Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"
by Argento, Dominick; Libretto by John Manlove
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1968. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original wrappers.
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A Water Bird Talk; Opera in one act freely adapted from "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco" by Anton Chekov and "The Birds of America" by J. J. Audubon
by Argento, Dominick
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1980. paperback. Fine. Bound in the publisher's original blue and white wrappers. Publisher's distribution sticker on bottom left corner of cover. 9 x 12 inches. 88 pages.
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Jonah And The Whale; Tenor and bass soli, mixed chorus, narrator, and instrumental ensemble
by Argento, Dominick
Northfield, MN: Boosey & Hawkes, 1976. paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher's original yellow wrappers.
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Miss Havisham's Wedding Night; Opera in One Act; Opera in One Act
by Argento, Dominick
New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1987. Paperback. Fine. Libretto (after Dickens) by John Olon-Scrymgeour. Vocal score. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated cream paper with front cover stamped and illustrated in brown. 9 x 12 inches. 68 pages.
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Pointers and Setters
by Argue, Derry
Shrewsbury: Swan Hill, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth over boards, spine stamped in black.
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Pre Fab
by Arieff, Allison and Bryan Burkhart
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams.
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A History of Private Life, Five Volumes
by Aries, Philippe & Georges Duby, General Editors
Cambridge: Belknap, 1987. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original black quarter cloth and colored paper covered boards, spines stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities of dust jackets, closed tears at the heads of volume one & volume 3, chip at the bottom front fore edge of volume two. Editors include Paul Veyne, Georges Duby, Roger Chartier, Michelle Perrot, Antoine Prost and Gerard Vincent.
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Great Philosophers of the Ancient World, in five volumes complete
by Aristotle, and Lucretius, Plato, Cicero, Seneca, Simon Brett
London: Folio Society, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. First Folio Society edition. Includes Aristotle's Ethics, Cicero's On the Good Life, Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, Plato's Republic, and Seneca's Letters from a Stoic. All volumes feature gorgeous frontispiece engravings by Simon Brett, replicated on the covers. Bound in quarter black leather stamped in gilt, with boards wrapped in Brett's illustrations. Comes in a matching brown board slipcase stamped in gilt. Various translators. Volumes include introductions, prefaces, notes, appendices,... Read More
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Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Pablo Picasso. Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso, translated and introduced by Gilbert Seldes. Bound in the publisher's original red composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers.
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A Metrical Version of The Acharnians, The Knights, and The Birds: In the Last of Which a Vein of Peculiar Humour and Character is For the First Time Detected and Developed
by Aristophanes
London: William Pickering, 1840. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in full calf with spine and cover stamped in gilt, five raised bands, and leather spine label marbled endpapers and page edges. Three plays, each seperately paginated. The second and third plays have colophons reading "Malta: Printed at the Government Press. 1839." All three were bound and published in London by Pickering in 1840. Text block is in nice shape, with crisp and bright pages, sharp edges and corners. Very... Read More
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Four Comedies
by Aristophanes
Norwalk: Easton Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Translated by Dudley Fitts. Color frontispiece by Richard Sparks. Collector's edition bound in publisher's original black composition leather with covers and spine stamped in gilt. Silk moire endpapers. All edges gilt. Four raised bands on the spine. Publisher's note laid in.
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The Birds, The Frogs
by Aristophanes
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1979. Fine Condition. Limited first edition. Bound in full green composition leather decorated in gilt with silk moire end papers. All edges gilt.
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The Eleven Comedies; Literally And Completely Translated From The Greek Tongue Into English
by ARISTOPHANES
New York, Horace Liveright, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition. Two volumes. One of 2,000 copies. Cloth with gilt letters and designs on the spines and fronts, uncut, dust jackets. Two corners of volume 1 are gently bumped, both dust jackets are split along the front hinge, otherwise very good condition.
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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
by Arkin, Laura, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey
Cham, Switzerland: palgrave macmillan, 2019. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original printed vinyl over boards.
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The Professional Chef's Techniques of Healthy Cooking; The Culinary Institute of America
by Armentrout, Jennifer S, editor
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Foreword by Graham Kerr. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. General wear to extremities. Name written on bottom edge. Name on front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated. 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches. 634 pages.
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Accent on Life
by Armitage, Merle; foreword by John Charles Thomas
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine..
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The Lithographs of Richard Day
by Armitage, Merle
New York: E. Weyhe, 1932. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 500 copies bound in white boards, cover and spine stamped in blind. Edges are lightly rubbed. Original signed litho frontis by Day and portrait of him by Edward Weston with tissue guards. Foreward by Carl Zigrosser, and 12 lithographic reproduction plates.
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