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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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Les fables d'Ésope, avec cent vingt-trois figures d'après Barlow. Collection de gravures piquantes et d'apologues ingénieux pour l'amusement et l'instruction de la jeunesse.
by Aesop
Paris: chez Henri Tardieu, Libraire, Rue et Maison des Mathurins, [1810] First edition from this publisher. Some OCLC records bear dates of 1801 or 1802 for this same edition, though the date on the title-page is "an X," i.e., 1810. The illustrations are copied from the original images by Barlow, which were first published in 1666. This attractive edition of Aesop features the stories retold for the "amusement and instruction of the youth. Early marbled boards with green roan spine... Read More
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Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien. Illustréea de Discours Moraux, Philosophiques, et Politiques. Nouvelle Edition. Augmentée de beaucoup en divers endroits. Avec des Reflexions Morales, Par J. Baudoin.
by Aesop
A Bruxelles: Chez François Foppens 1669 A scarce seventeenth century illustrated edition. Jean Baudoin (1590 – 1650) first published his edition of Aesop in Paris in 1631. The Brussels editions contain a different series of illustrations than the earlier Paris editions. Pieter Van der Borcht (1545 – 1608) had a long career working for the Plantin Press in Antwerp. He also provided illustrations for Dodoens' famous herbal. . Rebound in modern tan calf. Gilt spine with black leather morocco label.... Read More
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A Reviewer's ABC: Collected Criticism of Conrad Aiken from 1916 to the present
by Aiken, Conrad
[New York:] Greenwich Editions published by Meridian Books, [1958] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's address label. Very good in lighlty edgeworn, clipped d.j.
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And in the Human Heart
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940] First edition. Burgundy cloth with front cover and spine stamped in silver. Octavo. Fine in partially discolored, price-clipped, very good dust jacket.
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Selected Poems
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Scribners, 1929 Limited to 210 copies, signed by the author. Green cloth over decorative boards. Octavo. Spine a bit faded, neat contemporary ink inscription. Very good in very good publisher's slipcase.
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A Reviewer's ABC: Collected Criticism of Conrad Aiken from 1916 to the present
by Aiken, Conrad
London: WH Allen, 1961 First British edition. Cloth. Octavo. Slight foxing to fore-edge. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket with a little light edgewear.
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And in the Human Heart
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940] First edition. Burgundy cloth with front cover and spine stamped in silver. Octavo. Fine in partially discolored, price-clipped, very good dust jacket.
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Reason and Conduct: New Bearings in Moral Philosophy
by Aiken, Henry David
New York: Knopf, 1962 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. Near fine in like d.j. Spine of d.j. very lightly faded.
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The Spendthrift: A Tale. With illustrations by Hablot K. Browne.
by Ainsworth, William Harrison
London: George Routledge & Co., 1857 First edition. Original dark blue blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. . Octavo. Eight engraved plates, with tissue guards. Front hinge cracked, but sound, binding extremities lightly rubbed. A very good copy.
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Fever & Other New Poems
by Akhmadulina, Bella
New York: William Morrow, 1969 First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket has a little soiling.
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Basil Al-Bayati
by [Al-Bayati, Basil]
New York: Academy Editions, [1988] Cloth. Quarto. With 400 illustrations, including over 150 in full color. Fine in fine d.j. Chronicles the work of one of the leading London architects.
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Tiny Alice: A Play
by Albee, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1965 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Albee in April, 1965 to New York book dealer Allan Elsner "for himself and his lovely shop." Laid in is an envelope addressed to Elsner in which is a card on which Albee has written "Merry Christmas! Edward Albee. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and a lightly faded spine. .
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A History of English Utilitarianism
by Albee, Ernest
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902 First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. Spine extremities lightly frayed. A good, tight copy.
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Photographien 1928-1955. Herausgegeben von Marianne Stockebrand
by Albers, Josef
Munchen: Scirmer/Mosel, 1992 First (and only) edition. Boards. Quarto. With frontispiece, eighty-one black and white duotones, and fourteen black and white text illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Otto Perry: Master Railroad Photographer. Biography by R.H. Kindig
by Albi, Charles, and Jones, William C
Golden, Colorado: Coilorado Railroad Museum [1982] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in lightly edgeworn very good d.j.
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A.E. Housman & W.B. Yeats: Two Lectures
by Aldington, Richard
[Hurst, Berkshire:] The Peacocks Press, 1955 First edition. Green cloth with gilt spine. A fine copy. One of 350 copies.
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A List of Books Printed in Scotland Before 1700. Including Those Printed Furth of the Realm for Scottish Booksellers. With brief notes on the printers and stationers
by Aldis, Harry G
Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1970 Cloth. Quarto. Fine in very good d.j. Spine of d.j. faded.
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The Compton Marbling Portfolio of Patterns.
by [ Alembic Press. Bolton, Claire
Oxford: The Alembic Press, 1986 One of ninety-six copies, handset in Kennerly with an Arab Foolscap Folio on 145 gsm Zerkall paper. Full red cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. . Quarto. Twenty-eight (not twenty-seven) tipped in marbled paper samples, with introductory material on the origins of marbled paper, methods, patterns and markets. Some very light speckling to covers. A very good copy.
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Eloges lus dans les séances publiques de l'Académie françoise..
by Alembert, [Jean Le Rond d'].
Paris: Chez Panckoucke/Moutard, 1779 First edition. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, edges stained red. . Twelvemo. Title-page vignette, woodcut headbands and tail-pieces. Corners rubbed, some light wear at spine ends. Overall a very good, clean copy. An interesting biographical sourcebook, containing eulogies for Massillon, Despréaux, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Bossuet, l'Abbé de Dangeau, M. de Sacy, de la Motte, Fénelon, l'Abbé de Choisy, Crébillon, Président Rose, and others. Followed by a dialogue between Descartes and Queen Christina of Sweden, a note... Read More
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Philosophical and Literary Pieces.
by Alexander, Samuel
London: Macmillan and Co., 1939 First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. Rubberstamp of philosopher Donald Williams, some light pencil. Frontisportrait detached. A very attractive, bright copy in very good d.j.
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Histoire des femmes depuis la plus haute antiquité kisqu à nos jours, Avec des Anecdotes curieuses, et de Détails très intérressans sur leur état civil et politique, chez tous ls peoples barbares et civilizes, anciens et moderns. Traduit de l'anglois Par le C. Cantwell..
by [ Alexander, William ]
Paris: Chez Briand, 1794 First French translation of this well known Hitory of Wome, which first appeared in 1779. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt flat spines with brown and black morocco labels, edges stained red. Four engraved frontispieces by Philibert Boutrois. Complete with half-titles. Light wear to binding extremities, a little light foxing. A very good, clean set. William Alexander (bap. 1742?, d. 1788?) was a University of Edinburgh-educated medical doctor. The present work, which has sociological and anthropological overtones,... Read More
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The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.
by Algeo, Sara M
Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, 1925 First edition. One of only a thousand copies, "the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt title. Octavo. With frontisportrait of the author, nearly seventy full-page and half-page photo reproductions and political cartoons. The photo reproductions include numerous portraits of suffragists, plus suffrage rallies and meetings and groups of suffragists campaigning in the streets. Also with... Read More
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The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California. Introduction and Bibliographical Note by John Seelye
by Alger, Horatio, Jr
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1965 One of 450 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Clothbacked pictorial boards. Octavo. Illustrations after woodcuts in French periodicals. A fine copy.
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Ansel Adams: Classic Images
by Alinder, James, and John Szarkowski
Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, [1986] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 76 duotone illustrations. Fine in dust jacket that is lightly rubbed in a few places.
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