Truth in Philosophy
by Allen, Barry
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. PRess, 1993 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, Epistles, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Allen
by Allen, [Brasseya]
Abingdon, (Md.): Printed by Daniel P. Ruff, 1806 First edition. Contemporary tree calf with later gilt-lettered black morocco label. Twelvemo. Binding extremities lightly worn. Spine label is worn and chipped with the loss of a few gilt letters. Tear on the Table of Contents leaf affecting a small portion of text. Some light browning and intermittent foxing. Still, a good copy. Brasseya Allen (1762-1831) published only one book, Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, and Epistles, and Other Poems, which she dedicated to... Read More
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Mr. Grant Allen's New Story "Michael's Crag." With three-hundred and fifty marginal illustrations in silhouette by Francis Carruthers Gould and Alec Carruthers Gould.
by Allen, Grant
London: Leadenhall Press, 1893 First edition of a scarce piece of Victorian fiction. The American edition, published the same year, is fairly common, but there is no copy of this, the true first, in MELVYL. OCLC lists nine copies, most in Canada. Original gray cloth with front cover and spine stamped in black. . Octavo. Spine faded. Very good. Charles Grant Allen (1848-1899) was born in Alwington, near Kingston, in Canada. He received his B.A. from Merton College,... Read More
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Action at Aquila
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1938] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. A little light edgewear. Near fine in near fine jacket. Clean and bright.
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Of Love and Shadows
by Allende, Isabel
NY: Knopf, 1987 Quarter burgundy cloth over terra cotta boards, front cover and spine stamped in copper. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Signed by the author. The author's second novel.
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La Porte de Malétroit
by [Allen Press]. Stevenson, Robert Louis
[San Francisco:] Printed for the Book Club of California by the L-D Allen Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1952 Cream-colored wrapperw, in glassine covering. Octavo. Decorations by Ray Bethers. Fine in slipcase. One of 300 copies. Printed on French handmade paper
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The Mirrour of the World
by [Allen Press]. Caxton, William.
Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1964 One of 139 copies, printed letterpress on handmade paper, in Romanée type. Three sections of unsewn signatures in the French style, each in colored paper wrappers, contained in a hinged green fabric-covered box lined with brown wood veneer. . Folio. Hand-colored initial letters, and thirty-three woodcut illustrations from the original work by Caxton. Light smudges and small dent to top of clamshell case. Bookplate from previous owner affixed to interior of case. Otherwise, a fine... Read More
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Petite Encyclopédie ou Les Élemens des Connoisances Humaines, Contenant Les Notions générales de toutes les Sciences, de tous les Arts utiles,& des matieres qui ont rapport à la Société.
by [ Alletz, Pons-Augustin ]
Paris: Nyon & Veuve Savoye 1766/ First edition of this encyclopedia for young persons, which explores a variety of topics including the sciences, arithmetic, geometry, optics, astronomy, medicine, and civil law. Contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments with gilt-lettered red morocco label, marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Two volumes, octavo. Two folding plates, one being a table of human knowledge (Vol. I) and the other showing how geometry is used in measuring (Vol. II). Engraved headpieces and vignettes. Binding extremities... Read More
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Oropesina
by Allix, Susan
[ London: Susan Allix, 2001] One of twenty-five copies. . Full tan cloth with printed paper decorative labels on covers. . Large octavo. 28 x 22cm. (11 1/8" x 8 1/2. 22 color and two black and white photographs laser printed onto Zerkell. Text in18 pt Bembo. A fine copy in tan cloth chemise. An Oropesina is a small almond cake. It gives its name to this book which was written and photographed in Spain" (colophon). "Time reconstructed. In this... Read More
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A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By Travellers Including Observations by Cyrus the Younger, Vitruvius, Columella, Goethe, Aurangzeb, Edward Lear & Others. With Painted Prints, Collages, Photographs, and Descriptions.
by Allix, Susan
[London:] 2015 One of seventeen numbered copies. . Green and yellow-gold morocco illustrated with a yellow-dotted vine pattern and an engraved copper leaf inlay that has been oxydised to give it a dark coloring. The artist notes that each binding in this edition is slightly different. However, two constant themes connect them all - a predominance of green, and leaves that have been cut out of copper, engraved, then oxydised to make them dark; pages are joined together and, for... Read More
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The Golden Temple Mail to Bharatpur.
by Allix, Susan
[London: ] Susan Allix, [2001] One of fifteen regular copies out of a total edition of twenty-five copies. Of the twenty-five copies, Copy Number 1 had paintings, copies 2-15 had original etchings based on the paintings, and copies xvi to xxv had reproductions made from the etchings or paintings. This is Copy no. xxiii. Signed by Susan Allix. Purple, yellow and cream-colored wrappers, stitched at spine in yellow. In acetate and cream-colored board covers. . Quarto. Six color etchings accompanied... Read More
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Through Closed Doors. 7 Paraclausithyra. Theocritus, Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Horace, Catullus, Propertius. With Photographs of Italian Doors and accompanying Prints
by Allix, Susan
[London:] Susan Allix, [2005\ One of twenty-one copies, this being number seven. Signed and numbered in pencil by the author on the colophon. Quarter black goatskin over Japanese wood veneer paper-covered boards. The wafer thin wood has been printed, stained gray, air-brushed in soft red and black and wax polished. Paper and reversed goat skin onlays in black, gray, magenta, and green. Black Japanese paper doublures and the endpapers have cuts outs onto a doorway printed onto the flyleaves.... Read More
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A Gleaner's Sheaf. Verses
by Alma Tadema, Laurence
London: St. Martin's Press, 1927 First edition. Gray printed wrappers. Octavo. Small tears at head and foot of spine, corners of first few leaves bent. A very good copy. A collection of poems by the daughter of the artist, Sir Lawrence-Tadema.
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Little Pet's ABC Panorama.
by [ Alphabet books ]
New York: McLoughlin Bros., [n.d., ca. 1870] First edition. The illustrations seem to be the same as those that appear in the McLoughlin children's book Major's Alphabet (1870). Original wooden box with color-printed paper onlay. Two wooden knobs on the side of the box allow readers to turn through the scroll. Box (7 x 7 x 1 ") containing paper scroll (approx. 5" wide). . Scroll is color-printed with twenty-six vignettes, one for each letter of the alphabet, with accompanying... Read More
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Picture Alphabet
by [ Alphabet books].
New York: McLoughlin Bros., [n.d., ca. 1870s] First edition? Date inferred from wrapper ads. Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers sewn at spine. 6 x 10 in. Six pages printed in black with reading and vocabulary lessons. Otherwise, illustrated in color. Some dustsoiling and chipping to wrappers and some foxing throughout. A good copy of a fragile item. Contains eleven lessons that teach children the alphabet and simple vocabulary words. The Civil War appears thematically in the present work, which includes depictions... Read More
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The Collected Works of Fanch Ledan
by Alson, Peter
[Santa Monica:] Distributed by Binder Fine Arts, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Oblong quarto. Color illustrationCs throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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![Peter Amelung's Johann Zainer the Elder & Younger. Translated from the German by Ruth Schwab-Rosenthal. Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Compendium Theologiae Veritatis [c. 1478-81]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/177/254/1547254177.0.l.jpg)
Peter Amelung's Johann Zainer the Elder & Younger. Translated from the German by Ruth Schwab-Rosenthal. Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Compendium Theologiae Veritatis [c. 1478-81]
by Amelung, Peter
Los Angeles: Printed by Patrick Reagh for] Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc., 1985 One of 159 copies. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. . Quarto. Title page printed in red and black. Original leaf from Compendium Theologiae Veritatis [c. 1478-81] inserted in a folder between the last leaf of the introduction and the half-title. Illustrated with four reproductions from Zainer's other works. Cloth has a few minor stains, else a fine copy. The leaf which accompanies our volume is... Read More
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Science, Language, and Human Rights. Papers for the symposia held at the annual meeting CCNY, December 29-31, 1952
by American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Ink signature. Very good.
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Wonderful England! Or, The Happy Land! By Mrs. Ernest Ames
by Ames, Mary Frances
London: Grant Richards, [1902[ First edition. Original color pictorial boards with cloth spine. A bit of light rubbing to extremities. Oblong quarto. With 24 color-printed engraved plates included in pagination. Toning to endpapers. Lacking rear free endpaper. A very good, clean, and bright copy of an uncommon work. Wonderful England! is a facetious and seemingly satirical exultation of British manners and culture in the Edwardian era, told in verse paired with illustrations. The verse pokes fun at the lively caricatures... Read More
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Time. Poems by Yehuda Amichai
by Amichai, Yehuda
New York: Harper & Row, [1979] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. A little fading at top edge. Ink signature of poet Laurel Ann Bogen. Very good in fine d.j.
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One Fat Englishman
by Amis, Kingsley
London: Gollancz, 1963 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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![Hai tou Anakreontos Odai [Greek]. The Odes of Anacreon: literally translated into English prose..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/794/478794764.0.l.jpg)
Hai tou Anakreontos Odai [Greek]. The Odes of Anacreon: literally translated into English prose..
by Anacreon
York: Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, and sold by C. Dilly…[et al.], 1796 First edition of this attractively printed translation of Anacreon's Odes by Thomas Gilpin. The odes are translated into simple English prose, "designed for the use of those who have made no great progress in Grecian literature." The twenty-ninth odes is not translated, as "There are several expressions…which might give offence to a delicate ear. Original boards, uncut, rebacked in paper, with printed spine label... Read More
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The Women of the South in War Times
by Andrews, Matthew Page
Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., 1920 First edition of this collection of personal narratives of Confederate women. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt. . Octavo. With four photo plates (including frontispiece). Some dustsoiling to cloth. Ink ownership signature (1921) of a Mrs. E.L. Merry to front pastedown. Foxing to a few leaves. One plate loose, laid in at original position. A very good, tight copy. The present work begins with a foreword defending the people of the... Read More
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The Cretan Goatherder. [Translated by Ilias N. Pontikos (Greek) and Julian Norcross (French).
by Andrews, Michael
Retaud, France Pre Nian Editions 2014 Limited edition of 60 numbered copies, including 15 signed author's copies, of which this is number 8. Brown paper wrappers with title printed in gray on front cover and spine. Pages untrimmed. Oblong octavo. Unpaginted and unbound, as issued. Silkscreen color illustrations by Pindaros Michaeledes and Bertrand Bracaval. Hand-set in Vendome and printed by letterpress. Comes with handmade slipcase by Jean Frere with the contributions of Katie Hadjipateras and Philippe Miennee
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![Love, Marriage, and Divorce and the Sovereignty of the Individual. A Discussion by Henry James [Sr.], Horace Greeley, and Stephen Pearl Andrews. Including the Final Replies of Mr. Andrews, Rejected by The Tribune](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/400/046/1335046400.0.l.0.jpg)
Love, Marriage, and Divorce and the Sovereignty of the Individual. A Discussion by Henry James [Sr.], Horace Greeley, and Stephen Pearl Andrews. Including the Final Replies of Mr. Andrews, Rejected by The Tribune
by Andrews, Stephen Pearl, ed
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853 First edition. Pamphlet bound in early twentieth century half brown leather over light brown cloth boards. . Twelvemo. Some fading to leather on upper board. Spine rubbed. Top edge gilt. Purple endpapers with bookseller's ticket in right hand corner of lower endpaper. Title-page coming loose at head. Some dampstaining to first dozen or so leaves. Some toning and foxing to leaves. Still a good, tight copy of an item that is rare in commerce.... Read More
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