Paul Cezanne. Paintings from the Museums of the Soviet Union. The Hermitage, Leningrad. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, [1985] Cloth. Folio. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Sinbad the Voyager; Robin Hood Ballads; and Other Stories
London: Routledge, 1853 Routledge Illustrated One Shilling Juveniles. Original dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Small octavo. Engraved frontispiece and three woodcuts in text. A little edgewear, old pencil signature. A very good copy of a rare item. OCLC lists only modern editions with the Harvey illustrations. This book includes: 'Sinbad the Sailor,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes: A Poem by John Keats,' 'The True History by Lucian of Samosata', and 'Robin Hood Ballads' ... Read More
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Cow Parade Kansas City
New York: Workman Publishing, [2001] First edition. Boards. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimees par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVIIe Siecle redige par Edouard Rahir
Paris: Damscene Morgand, 1896 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. A couple of leaves poorly opened. Overall very good.
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Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality
[New York:] Abrams in association with the Montclair Art Museum, [1994] First edition. Boards. Quarto. With 165 illustrations, including 65 in full color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1971] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket.
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Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Divison
Washington: Library of Congress, 1991 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine.
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The Theory of Universals
by Aaron, R.I
Oxford: At the University Press 1952 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.
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The Theory of Universals
by Aaron, R. I
Oxford: Athe University Press, 1952 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped d.j. Jacket has small gash in spine.
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Stencilled Ornaments & Illustration. A Demonstration of William Addison Dwiggins' Method of Book Decoration and Other Uses of Stencil. Together With a Note by the Artist. Compiled and Arranged by Dorothy Abbe.
by Abbe, Dorothy
Hingham, Mass: Puterschein-Hingham, 1979. One of 120 copies. Black paper covered boards with white and black linen spine, in original glassine d.j. Quarto. Illustrations throughout the text. Hand set in Winchester Roman, an experimental Linotype face designed by Dwiggins. Includes a tipped-in photograph of Dwiggins and 5 other tipped in photographic plates. A fine copy. William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956) was a notable book designer, typographer, illustrator, and writer. He gained popularity through his advertising work in the 1920s. He later... Read More
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How to Live Life
by [ Abbey San Encino Press]. Carruthers, Jack
Los Angeles: Abbey Handset Press and Bindery, 1929 First edition. One of 200 copies. Previous sellers have claimed that Carruthers is a pseudonym of either Clyde Browne, or his son Jack, who together, under their shared Fathersonian imprint of Browne's Abbey Press, produced the present work. However, we cannot confirm this. It is indeed possible, given the absence of any historical record of a Jack or John F. Carruthers Jr., that these are pseudonyms for Clyde and Jack, respectively, and... Read More
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Pacific Slope Railroads. From 1854 to 1900
by Abdill, George B
Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, [1959] First edition. Cloth. Very good in dust jacket with a couple of short tears and one crease.
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Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investiation of Truth. From the second Edinburgh Edition
by Abercrombie, John
New-York: printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1832 First American edition. Harper's Family Library No. XXXVII. Original tan printed muslin. Twelvemo. Spine darkened. A very good copy, clean and tight. Abercrombie (1780-1844) was a celebrated Edinburgh physician, especially noted with his work with the poor. In 1828 he became physician to the Scottish King. In 1835 he received an honorary M.D. from Oxford, and was elected Lord Rector of marischal College in Aberdeen. The present work was very... Read More
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Poesie, Raccolte e publicate per la prima volta da un Accademio Fiorentino con una Dissertazione sopra poesia dramatica etmMusica del teatro
by Adami, Anton- Filippo
Florence: Nella Stamp Imp., 1755 First edition. Contemporary vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Octavo. Copper-engraved title-page vignette on title-page, copper-engraved armorial headpiece. Dedication to the poet Giuseppe Bonechi (ca.1715-ca.1795), who wrote librettos, including one for Josef Myslivecek's Bellorofonte. A very good copy. Anton-Filippo Adami was a poet and miscellaneous writer. His topics ranged from agriculture to literary history and criticism. He made a well known translation of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. The present book contains... Read More
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Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light
by Adams, Ansel
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979 Gray cloth with red cloth backstrip. Oblong quarto. Ink donor's inscription. Edges of boards faded. Very good in fine d.j
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Our Flag." [Broadside]. Artwork by Keith Achepohl.
by Adamshick, Carl
Eugene, Oregon: Lone Goose Press, 2011 One of fifty-three copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. 25 x 8 1/2. With illustrations of flags in red, blue, yellow, and green. ("The original artwork consisted of line drawings and etchings. The etchings were scanned and digitally manipulated to create relief plates to render the flag textures. ") Fine. The poem is from the collection, Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011), which won the 2010 Walt Whitman Award.... Read More
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive, Pathetic, Plaintive, and Pastoral Poetry, Extracted from the Works of the Latest and Most Celebrated Poets..
by Adams, John
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789 First edition of a poetry collection for children that features the works of several significant female poets, including a dozen by sisters Harriet (b. 1744) and Maria Falconar (b. 1771), abolitionist and religious writer Hannah More (1745-1833), whose poem is about slavery, Ann Yearsley (1753-1806), and Elizabeth Carter (1707-1806). The present work also features poetry by Pope, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns (an early anthologizing), Milton, Cowper, and Fitzgerald among others. Contemporary tree... Read More
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The Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813. Edited by John A. Schutz and Douglass Adair
by Adams, John, and Benjamikn Rush
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1966 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in good d.j. Jacket has light foxing and some browning.
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James Purdy
by Adams, Stephen D
[London:] Vision, [1976] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Corners bumped. Very good in very good d.j. Jacket has small tear at top of front cover and a little edgewear.
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Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Practice of the Typographic Art: with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office
by Adams, Thomas F
Philadelphia: Printed and published by the compiler, 1837 First edition of a classic American printer's manual, kept in print until 1864 and ultimately replaced as the standard manual by MacKellar's American Printer in 1866. Later cloth with gilt spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. With four plates, printed on a clay-finished paper, including three showing presses: the Ruthven, Philadelphia (Ramage) and Washington presses. Additional illustrations in text. Foxed throughout, as usual, bookplate of Jake Chernofsky (d. 2004), editor and publisher of... Read More
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Idleness and Industry. An instructive example for young children translated from the German of Victor Adam
by Adam, Victor
Guben [Germany] F.Fechner, [n.d., ca. 1840] First edition. Idleness and Industry tells the story of Felix, a lazy and disobedient boy who falls into poverty after the death of his father and must be pulled back from the brink of suicide by his kind, hardworking, and pious friend Robert. Original printed cloth-covered boards with decorative border in blue and gilt on both boards, title on upper board, and an image of a man on lower board. . Small octavo.... Read More
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Verses and Jingles
by Ade, George
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1911] First edition. Red cloth. Twelvemo. Very good.
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Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints
by Adhemar, Jean
New York: Abrams, [1985] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 368 illustrations, 54 in full color. Fine in dust jacket. Spine of d.j. lightly faded, otherwise fine.
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The Lord's Land: A Narrative of Travels in Sinai, Arabia Petræa, and Palestine, from the Red Sea to the Entering in of Hamath.
by [ Advertising. Salesman's dummy.] Ridgaway, Henry B.
New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1876 Salesman's sample demonstrating two binding options: "Fine English cloth, black and gold stamp, beveled boards" for $5 and "Full Gilt Turkey Morocco" for $7.50.. Publisher's binding with black leather over upper board and red cloth over lower board and spine (demonstrating the two different binding options). . 6 x 9 in. . Half- and full-page illustrations throughout. Last eight pages blank except for heading reading "Subscriber's Names / Residence / Style of Binding. Slight... Read More
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[ Avon cosmetics and home goods catalogue.]
by [ Advertising.] Avon Products, Inc.
New York: California Perfume Company, Inc., n.d., ca. 1936 Date from page commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the California Perfume Company (1886 – 1936). The California Perfume Company changed its name to Avon in 1939. These catalogues, which were issued under varying titles to Avon representatives, are all scarce, especially those predating the name change. OCLC records one copy of a similar catalogue from 1938 (Hagley Museum) and a few copies of catalogues from 1935-1937 (UC Irvine, Hagley, the Strong).... Read More
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