TO PEKING AND BEYOND: A REPORT ON THE NEW ASIA
by Salisbury, Harrison E.
NY: Quadrangle, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reports from Asia by the eminence grise of American international reporting, who spent his editorial career at The New York Times. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and reportorial authority on China and Russia. Inscribed by Salisbury on the ffe. Book near fine, dustjacket has a few closed tears.
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Samaras : Photographs, 1969-1986
by Samaras, Lucas; Lifson, Ben (editor)
Gordonsville, VA, U.S.A.: Aperture Foundation, Incorporated, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Almost As New/Fine +.
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AN ARRANGEMNET OF WORDS
by Samstag, Nicholas. Bethke, Amos (book designed by)
privately printed, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full title: A collection of epigrams presented in the expectation that the reader will recognize himself here with some amusement and occasional dismay. Privately printed in a limited edition for the friends of the Typographic Service Company of New York, a Division of the Electrographic Corporation. Marbelized covers with title inset front cover, 8vo. 83 pp. The type is 18 point Farmers Original Old Style Italic.
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THE STORY OF THE HEREFORDS
by Sanders, Alvin H.
Chicago: Sanders Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1914, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Original publisher's binding- blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown. Stains to edges her and there not affecting text block. Solid copy. Scarce.
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HISTORIA UNIVERSALE dell'origine et imperio de' Turchi
by SANSOVINO, Francesco (1521 - 1586)
Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1582. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. HISTORIA UNIVERSALE dell'origine et imperio de' Turchi. Raccolta & in diversi luoghi di nuovo ampliata da Et riformata in molte sue parti per ordine della Santa Inquisitione. Nella quale si contengono le leggi, gli offici, i costumi & la militia di quella natione, con tutte le cose fatte da loro per terra & per mare. Con le vite particolari de Principi Othomani, cominciando dal primo fondator di quell'Imperio, sino... Read More
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The Poet and the Donkey
by Sarton, May
New York: WW Norton and Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine -. price clipped, no previous owner markings.
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Existentialism
by Sartre, Jean-Paul
NY: Philosophical Library, 1957. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Solid copy in slightly soiled dustjacket. PON ffe.
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SHERSTON'S PROGRESS
by Sassoon, Siegfried
London: Faber and Faber, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very nice copy in dustjacket with the uncommon wrap-around band as issued. edges of cloth a wee soiled and dustjacket similarly toned around its edges. Light spotting to prelims. Ownership copy of American artist and book illustrator Robert Andrew Parker with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
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Journey Cake, Ho!
by Sawyer, Ruth; Robert McCloskey (illustrated by)
NY: Viking, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition lacking dustjacket. First signature pulling a tad. Overall, nice, used copy. Scarce in first edition.
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MAX REINHARDT AND HIS THEATRE THE "MIRACLE" EDITION (with promotional materials laid-in)
by Sayler, Oliver (edited by). (Bel Geddes, Norman)
NY: Brentano's, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good +. The Miracle Edition". Clean, solid better than very good copy. No names, inscriptions, bookplates. etc. 8vo, gilt-stamped charcoal linen, top edge stained orange, decorated endpapers, xxxv, 381, lavishly illustrated with b&w and color plates. Laid in are promotional materials for performances of The Miracle at the Cleveland Public Auditorium in December 1924: a three-panel folded brochure and a large, folded news flyer, 18x24" issued by the Cleveland Civic 'Miracle' Committee, which... Read More
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Selected Poems
by Scannell, Vernon
London: Allison & Busby, 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. No. 21/50 copies specially bound and signed by the author.
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DAS MEISTERSTUCK. Matthias Petrus Schaller)
by Schaller, Matthias (art of). Boehm, Gottfried (text)
Matthias Schaller/ VG Blidkunst, 2015. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. 800 copies in English, 400 in German, this copy in English. Squarish folio, white cloth, titles stamped in black, 115 (4), pictorial review of Scahller's homage to the great artists creating his own vision of their paint palettes that reflects his interpretation of that particular artist's sensibilities of color, texture and composition, for artists from the likes of Degas and Cezanne to Dali and Twombly. Book as... Read More
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CARL RUNGIUS BIG GAME HUNTER: FIFTY YEARS WITH BRUSH AND RIFLE
by Schaldach, William J.
West Hartford VT: The Countryman Press, 1945. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. Rungius, Carl. #267 of 1250 copies. As new copy in publisher's slipcase.
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Rondo
by Schapiro, Miriam
San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Schapiro, Miriam. #22 of 80 copies of the first, limited edition, signed and numbered and dated 1989 by the artist on the colophon. Purple cloth boards, pictorial pastdown, gilt pressed titles, multi-panel accordian fold. LACKING oriiginal silkscreen. Housed in black cloth slipcase. Fine.
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BEAUTY IN BULBS: A TREATISE IN THE LEADING VARITIES OF BULBS SUITABLE FOR OUTDOOR CULTURE AND OF PROVEN MERIT FOR AMERICAN GARDENS
by (John Scheepers)
NY: John Scheepers, Inc, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo, floral patterned, dark green, faux brocaded silk covers. decorated endpapers, 215 pages, loads of full page color prints. Inserted in rear is 24 page Scheepers catalog. Near fine all over. THE collectible copy.
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COURSE OF LECTURES ON DRAMATIC ART AND LITERATURE (2 volumes)
by Schlegel, Augustus William. Black, John (translator)
London: J. Templeman and J. R. Smith, 1840. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second English-language edition of German Schlegel's important work. In publsher's brown clotf, blin-stamped frint and rear, gils spine titles. xxxi, 400; 404, 16 (publisher's catalog in rear). Original owner name dated 1841 title page in black ink, another owner name dated Heideberg 1937 on ffe. Covers a wee sunned, mostly to spine. A solid, unsophistcated copies.
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Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend. Enthaltend 30 colorirte Blätter auf cartonirt Papier mit Abbildungen verschiedenartiger Gegenstände
by Schreiber, J. F.
Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 30 double-sheet chromolithographs, richly colored. 16 pp of text in rear, the signature of which is a tad loose. Pictorial printed cover, soiled, brown cloth spine. Internals better than usually seen.
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SO HERE THEN ARE DREAMS
by Schreiner, Olive
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wide 8vo, suede spine, leather label. Initials, borders and ornaments designed by Saint Gerome, printining supervised by Andrew Andrews, "Honest Roycorfter". Suede spine over gray paper boards. Small abrasions above label and tiny tear to suede (1/4') parallel to top edge rear panel. Shallow grayish-white intermittent spotting to top edge of pastedown and free front endpaper. Internals about as fine as one could expect to see. The superior... Read More
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MEMOIRS OF A SINGER (PAULINE: MEMOIRS OF AN OPERA SINGER)
by Madame Borgia. (Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrien)
London: (unidenitified), 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. This adult novel defies bibliography. The author is, obviously, a pseudonym and the publisher is unidentified. OCLC lists no copy under any variation of its title in the time frame of its publishing date of 1937. The text suggests this could be an adaptation of "Pauline: Memoirs of an Opera Singer", or "Promiscuous Pauline, The Memoirs of a German Opera Singer", which was first published by Gebrüder Franckh... Read More
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Waterfront
by Schulberg, Budd
New York, NY: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. Some spotting on covers of book. No inscriptions or signatures by previous owner. Dj intact with some staining at top edge. Closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. Not priceclipped. Novelization of the famous 1950s classic "On the Waterfront
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Teppiche Aus Dem Orient
by Schurmann, Ulrich
Wiesbaden: Ebeling Verlag, 1976. Cloth. Fine -/Very Good +. small pieces missing at spine ends and corners, plus a small triangular piece missing on back, internally fine, no previous owner markings.
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The Eye of the Wind: An Autobiography
by Scott, Peter
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/NF-. Near fine in very good, price clipped dustjacket. Inscribed by Scott to an American collector "Inscribed to Hugh McMillan by Peter Scott October 1965" on the title page with a finely articulated open-winged goose in flight drawn in blue ink, plus a small archive of correspondance between the American collector and Scott and his staff at The Wildfowl Trust, founded by Scott. Three letters from the staff on... Read More
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The Works of Sir Walter Scott (41 volumes)
by Scott, Sir Walter. (Lowell, Mary Ellen)
Edinburgh: Archibald, Constable and Co.; Cadell and Co (1819-33), 1819. Early and first editions. Hardcover. Very Good +. 41 volumes, uniformly bound in full calf, mid 19thC. All volumes with the ownership name of Mary Ellen Lowell dated 1854, she being presumably a member of the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan. Volumes numbered I - XXV of this assembled set were published by Archibald Constable (Edinburgh) and various entities of Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme and Brown or Hurst Robinson... Read More
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Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered Based on the Collection . in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq
by Scott, Temple. Newton, A. Edward (introduction)
NY: Bowling Green Press, 1928. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. Limited edition, #348 of 750 copies. As new, still wrapped in glassine in publsiher's plain cardboard box (top missing sides). Numbered and signed on the colophon by pressman Edward Stern.
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Lessons in Elocution: or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse, for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as for the perusal of persons of taste with an appendix, containing concise lessons on a new plan and principled of English grammar. to which are prefixed elements of gesture,
by Scott, William
Middletown CT: Thomas Spencer, Jr., 1818. Early US Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. On title page stated First Middletown, from the Fifth Hartford Edition. Original full calf, 383 pages 4 illustrated plates. Covers worn and scuffed, solid binding. A nice, unsophisticated early 19thC copy, often reprinted by New England, New York and Philadelphia printers, of what first appeared in Edinburgh in 1779. This edition printed by T. Dunning. WorldCat list numerous copies by lots of American printers, but we... Read More
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