Notes from a Frontier
by Ainscough, Thomas M.
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., 1915. Book. Good. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE.Worldcat shows only The British Library with a holding. In original printed beige paper wrappers, illustrated with 10 black and white photographs. Good, spine and rear wrapper missing, last signature loose from binding, front wrapper with edge wear, all contents present, interior clean and unmarked, most pages uncut. iv, 90 pp. Britain and Tibet 1765-1947, 3223..
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The Tower of London. A Historical Romance
by Ainsworth, William Harrison; Illustrations by George Cruikshank
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Issue, the 3 plates mentioned by Cohn at pp. 16, 28 and 45 in their first state. Handsome early 20th-century binding by Morrell in half brown crushed morocco over beige buckram, five raised bands with gilt rules, lettering, decorations and tail date, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. With 40 etchings on steel and 58 wood engravings by George... Read More
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature. & Art . Seven Volumes
by Ainsworth, William Harrison, Editor
London: Hugh Cunningham / Cunningham & Mortimer / John Mortimer, 1842. Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seven volumes, published 1842- 1845, iv, 346, ii, 572, iv, 568, 562, ii, 560, 562, 562. Engraved plates by George Cruikshank and Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). with Cruikshank engravings Vols. I-V, and Browne's in VI and VII. Complete with all engravings. Cruikshank's illustrations are considered to be... Read More
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MIKROKOSMOS ( Literary Journals ) ( Kansas, Beats )
by Alan Russo, Corban LePell, Charles Plymell , George Van Arsdale, et al
Wichita, KS: Student Board of Publications / University of Wichita, 1958. Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A small collection of issues containing issue #1 (Spring, 1958); #2 ( Spring, 1959); #3 (January, 1960); #7 ( Spring, 1962); and the 1983 Twenty-Five Year Anniversary issue, five issues in all. Near Fine, #1 with toning front end page from newspaper clipping "Spring of 1959" in pencil top edge, with photograph showing staff... Read More
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A Delicate Balance
by Albee, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in year of publication on half-title page - "This copy of A Delicate Balance a play by Edweard Albee for Miss Nini (?) NYC 11-26-66". Near Fine, faint sticker shadows front and rear end pages, small stain bottom edge, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, price-clipped front flap, small chip and... Read More
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
by Albee, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated Second Printing, December 1962. Near Fine, top edge slight fading to red top stain, prior owner name front end page, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips, rubbing and light soiling..
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Despite Straight Lines ; An Analysis of His Graphis Constructions
by Albers, Josef; Bucher, Frank
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Printing, 1980. Near Fine, light soiling to front cover, prior owner name, address, and phone # front end page. Statements and poems by Josef Albers..
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![Emblemata Andreae Alciati, I. V. Doctoris Clarissimi Postremo Ac Ultimo Ab ipso authore recognita, imaginibus[que] vivis ac lepidis denue artificiossime illustrata.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/519/353/1518353519.0.l.jpg)
Emblemata Andreae Alciati, I. V. Doctoris Clarissimi Postremo Ac Ultimo Ab ipso authore recognita, imaginibus[que] vivis ac lepidis denue artificiossime illustrata.
by Alciati, Andrea (Andrea Alciato, 8 May 1492 - 12 January 1550)
Francofurti ad Moenum : Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum apud Georgium Coruinum, sumptibus Sigismundi Feyerabendt & Simonis Huteri,, 1567. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Title page continues :"Adiecta Svnt Insvper Perelegantia ac docta Epimythia seu affabulationes, in quibus Emblematum amplitudo & quae in ijs dubia vel obscura sunt, perspicue` declarantur." [8], 209, [1] leaves, numerous allegorical illustrations in the text. 6" x 4". Text in Latin. Very Good in possibly later decorative paper covered... Read More
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Louisa May Alcott. Her Life, Letters, and Journals.
by Alcott, Louisa M.; Cheney, Ednah D. ( edited by)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing ( "with Goethe" at bottom of page 49. Bal 221). Decorative brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and black rules and floral design to front. Gilt title band , black lettering , orange designs and rules to the spine. Tissue guarded frontispiece, tissue guarded photogravure of Alcott at page 140, and three other illustrations. Green floral... Read More
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Wingfield: Edwardian Gentleman
by George E. Alexander
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall, Publisher, 1986. Book. Fine. Cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end page. "The story of the life and times of the inventor of our game of tennis.".
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View from Rabbit Ears Pass Road Colorado ( Hand Colored Photograph )
by Alexander
Colorado: The Artist, 1920. Book. Fine. Photograph. 5" x 7". No Date, circa 1920s. 5" by 7" hand colored photograph in original wood frame, signed Alexander at bottom left corner. Verso states "View from Rabbit Ears pass Road Colorado. To Mr. & Mrs. W.P. Allen from Mr. & Mrs. Hallas". The photograph and frame are Fine..
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Manuel pour le Corps de l'Infanterie. Extrait des principales Ordonnances relatives à l'Infanterie Françoise, & le plus journellement en usage, avec un détail historique sur son origine. Par un Officier des Dragons
by [Thirox de Mondesir] (Alexandre-Louis)
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1780. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. v, 252, xxvi pp. with three fold-out charts, collated complete,with no gap in paging 23-66 as in later 1781 edition.. Second Edition, 1780, the first edition published 1779. RARE in this edition, last copy at auction 1947 (RBH), OCLC locates 2 copies worldwide, the Morgan Library and Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Bound in contemporary crushed morocco, ornate gilt back, marbled end papers,... Read More
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Govierno Eclesiastico, que contiene el pastoral del gloriosissimo padre S. Gregorio el Magno Papa
by Alfaro, Gregorio de, (ca. 1516-ca. 1616); Pope Gregory; Juan Bautista Servera
Valencia, Spain: Benito Monfort, 1769. Book. Very Good. Vellum. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. [46], 375 p., [1]. Bound in contemporary vellum with two leather clasps, both present, Very Good, scattered light toning, front hinge starting to open, vellume aged, lettering at spine rubbed yet still legible. "From pp. 2-15 there is a prologue by the editor dedicated to Fr. Juan Bautista Servera, Bishop of the Canary Islands. From 16-21, there is a prologue... Read More
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Old Tales from Spain
by Alfau, Felipe; Illustrated by Rhea Wells
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1929. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Spanish born American novelist's first book, a book for children. Felipe Alfau's novels are Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (1936) and Chromos (written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990), the latter being nominated for the National Book Award in 1990. RARE in dust jacket, Near Fine, tiny bump top corner, in a Very Good dust jacket,... Read More
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Binding, Fine) Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti; con una notizia intorno agli autografi delle tragedie conservati nella mediceo-laurenziana, ed alle prime e principali edizioni di Esse
by Alfieri, Vittorio
Firenze: Successori Le Monnier, 1866. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes, with the bookplates of Louis Dyer, Sunbury Lodge, Oxford front paste downs. Louis Dyer (1851-1908) was an American educator and autho and was a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Two volumes bound in contemporary unsigned full vellum, covers with double gilt rules bordering gilt tooled emblems of Oxoniensis Academia (Fronts) and Coll deBal Oxon (rear covers), the backs... Read More
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The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; Translated from the Italian Volumes I and II of Three Volume Set
by ALFIERI, Vittorio; Lloyd, Charles, Translator.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Volumes I and II of this three volume set. Bound in contemp[orary half black morocco over pebbled dark blue morocco boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Very Good Plus, small bookseller's ticket Thornton & Son, Oxford, light rubbing at joints, moderate toning to and papers and widely scattered light toning throughout..
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(Etching ) Wilkie's Burial at Sea After Turner
by Alfred Louis Brunet-Debaines ( 1845-1939 )
London: The Portfolio Print. Very Good. No Binding. SIGNED BY ARTIST. 10" x 14". SIGNED by Alfred Brunet-Debaines in the plate. No Date, circa 1874. Overall size 10" x 14", plate size 7 3/4" x 8 1/2", image size 6" x 6". Very Good, toning to paper at top and bottom edges, small corner creases. Unmatted and unframed, verso blank..
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Rickets Including Osteomalacia and Tetany
by Alfred F. Hess, M. D.
London: Henry Kimpton, 1930. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First British Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in the British First Edition. Very Good Plus, light soiling to end pages and edges of page block, gilt at spine a bit dulled. A classic study of the disease by a doctor considered to be " the foremost investigator among pediatricians in this country." (JAMA).
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Agamemnon
by Alfred, William
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage -"To Peter Lindenbaum on his graduation 15 June 1960 William Alfred". From the library of noted Shakespeare and Milton scholar Peter Lindenbaum. A nice Association and a rather SCARCE signature. Near Fine, light soiling, in a Very Good dust jacket, front flap top corner price-clipped, internal... Read More
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Shadow of Shadows
by Ted Allbeury
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncommon in the American First Edition..
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The Syllabus of a Novel to be Called Anthony Adverse Plus ALS to Noted Book Collector
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Book. Fine in Wraps, as Issued. Stapled Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered First Edition. #619/1000 copies printed " for presentation to friends of the author and the publishers". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on verso of front wrapper "Autograph for Eugene L. Delafield, Esq. by Hervey Allen". Delafield was a noted New York book collector (1907-2001), the bulk of whose collection now resides in the Yale Collection of American Literature... Read More
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Roger Maris: A Man for All Seasons
by Allen, Maury
New York: Donald I Fine Inc., 1986. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing, with complete number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY from BOB KNIGHT to a friend- "Roger Maris was a very good friend of mine just as you have been. I think you will enjoy reading about him. Happy Birthday, Oct. 25, 1990, Bob Knight". Roger Maris died December 14, 1985 holding the single season record for home runs, with 61, PRE-STEROIDS..
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices... Three Volumes
by Allibone, S. Austin
London: Trubner & Co., 1859. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCARCE British edition of this standard reference work. Three volumes in contemporary full pebbled brown morocco, gilt rules and lettering, marbled end papers and edges. Vol. I published 1859, Vols. II and III, 1871. Near Fine, light rubbing to morocco, moderate toning mainly at end pages and lightly scattered throughout. A quite pleasing set. A heavy set, please be advised added shipping... Read More
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Return: Poems Collected and New
by Alurista
Ypsilanti, MI: Bilingual Review Press, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page, a lenghty inscription in Spanish to Russell Salmon, whose bookplate is attached to the verso of the front wrapper. Salmon was a Professor Emeritus in English at Indiana University who specialized in Latin American studies. Near Fine, light rubbing to the wrappers..
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Workers' Education; A Quarterly Journal, Volume 1, No.2, July-August 1923
by Workers Education Bureau of America
New York: Workers Education Bureau of America, 1923. Book. Fine in Wraps, as Issued. Pamphlet. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste, George S. Lackland, Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce..
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