Old Inns
by Aldin, Cecil
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. Quarter vellum and decorated boards. Limited edition copy #357 of 380 copies signed by the author and illustrator, and with an original drawing in black pencil and colored pencil added to the limitation page. The limitation page also bears the name of Sidney Pawling (Heinemann publisher) Xmas, 1921. From the library of Nelson Doubleday with his bookplate fixed to front pastedown. Doubleday purchased a controlling stake in the... Read More
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Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, et eccellentissimi ingegni, scritte in diuerse materie. Nuouamente ristampate, e in più luoghi corrette. Libro primo. [Bound with:] Lettere volgari di diversi nobilissimi hvomini, et eccellentiss. ingegni, scritte in diverse materie, Nuouamente ristampate, & in piu luoghi corrette. Libro secondo.
by [Aldine Press] Manuzio, Paolo.
Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1548 and 1550. Hardcover. Very Good+. Two works in one volume, 8vo. Seventeenth-century vellum, flat spine with red gilt-lettered morocco label, marbled endleaves. (Libro primo) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-R8: 136 leaves, foliated. Text with a few stains, but overall very clean. A quite nice copy. Bound with (Libro secondo) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8: 120 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine dolphin device on both title-pages and final... Read More
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Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis
by [Aldine] MELA, POMPONIUS (c. 43AD) SOLINUS, Julius -- et al
Venice: Aldus, 1518. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo. Red morocco super extra. a.e.g.; black spine labels, lettered in gilt. First and only Aldine edition of this work......8vo (150 x 95mm). 233, [3] leaves, including blank q8, and final leaf with Aldine woodcut device on verso. First and only Aldine edition of a compilation of ancient Roman writings on geography and cosmography. Mela was an early Roman geographer and author of the only ancient treatise on... Read More
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At All Costs
by Aldington, Richard
London: William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Green cloth with marbled paper over boards. A lovely copy. Limited edition #263 of 275 signed by the author. Although nothing here explicitly indicates as much, this book from the library if publisher Nelson Doubleday, whose publishing house bought a controlling stake in the English firm, Heinemann, in 1921.
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All Men Are Enemies
by ALDINGTON, Richard
London: Chatto and Windus, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited issue. Copy #103 of 110 copies signed by the author. 8vo. Publisher's quarter yellow buckram cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Lettered in gilt at the spine. t.e.g. A nice copy with light wear only.
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Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam Plantarum, Que Continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano
by ALDINI, TOBIAS and CASTELLI, PIETRO.
Rome: Jacobi Mascardi, 1625. Hardcover. Very Good+. [xii], 100, [8] pages. 22 engraved plates, woodcut text illustrations, engraved title, slim folio, modern mottled calf, spine gilt, edges speckled red. First edition of this study of rare and exotic plants (not native to Europe) obtained and cultivated by Aldini in the Roman Renaissance Gardens of the Palazzon. Castelli was a Roman professor of botany who founded the Botanical Gardens at Messina. A very nice copy showcasing fine... Read More
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Izbrannye Rasskazy [Selected Stories]
by Aleichem, Sholem; [Aleikhem, Shalom]; [Diaghileff (Diaghilev), Sergei]
Berlin: Ladyschnikow, n.d.. Hardcover. Good+. Early green cloth, handwritten paper spine label; pp. 166, with original wraps bound in. N.d., circa 1920-1930. From the library of Sergei Diaghileff -- a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes -- with his ownership stamps on prelims and terminals. Spine tips and corners a bit frayed; front hinge cracked, but holding; text block extremely brittle, with FFEP, original front wrap, and front flyleaf detached, laid-in.... Read More
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Roadside Songs of Tuscany
by Alexander, Francesca (trans., illus.); Ruskin, John (ed.)
Kent: George Allen, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Half gilt-ruled morocco and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments (5 raised bands), t.e.g.; 4to (235x300mm); pp. [6], 340, with 20 mounted platinotypes, each having a curved top and measuring 178x255mm; photographs by Frederick Hollyer from drawings and calligraphy by Francesca Alexander. First book edition, originally issued in ten parts. Boards rubbed; some moderate scuffing along joints, rasied bands, and edges of boards; corners bumped. Some... Read More
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The Lives of Pope Alexander Vi, and his Son Caesar Borgia
by GORDON. ALEXANDER
London, 1729. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Heavy Folio. Two parts in one. Old calf rebacked; engraved frontispiece to both parts. Binding worn, scattered dampstaining (heaviest to the top right quarter of the page in part two working to the end of the volume). Contemporary ownership inscriptions at the front, including the signature of a James Buchanan and a note in his hand below the signatureL "Given me by the Right Honorable The Early of Buchan, Jan. 1755." Jumping... Read More
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Dictionnaire Botanique et Pharmaceutique
by ALEXANDRE, Nicolas
Paris: Didot, 1751. Hardcover. Very Good+. Thick 8vo. pp. 796 (14) 23. Folding plate bound before tables in the rear. Contemporary French calf. Marbled endpapers. A nice copy
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians
by Alexander, William.
London. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Printed by Howlett & Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, [1823 i.e. 1825]. Thick 8vo, rebound in gilt-lettered dark green morocco, light edgewear, usual mild offsetting from plates; custom cloth slipcase. 64 beautifully hand-colored engravings. Colas 2359. Quite scarce on the market.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (First Edition)
by Alexie, Sherman
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine; illustrated dust jacket; pp. x, [2], 223. First edition, first printing stated. Aside from some very light rubbing at spine tips, book is without flaw. Dust jacket a little wrinkled at spine tips, else fine, in mylar. An excellent copy -- bright, tight, clean.
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Chicago: City on the Make.
by ALGREN, NELSON
New York: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Publisher's cloth, in edgeworn but still quite nice dust jacket.
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A Walk on the Wild Side
by ALGREN, NELSON
New York: Farrar, Straus, Cudhay, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A nice copy with light wear only
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The Greatest: My Own Story
by ALI, Muhammad
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition stated and with complete number line on copyright page, starting with 2 as called for. DJ is price-clipped; short tear at the top. Pasted in at the front on a blank slip is an autograph dedication in pencil signed by Ali and dated '76.
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An original large watercolor portrait of comedian Fred Allen by Ernest Hamlin Baker, for Time, 1947
by Allen, Fred
An attractive piece. Image available upon request.
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Treadmill to Oblivion
by Allen, Fred (Al Hirschfeld)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) designed by Al Hirschfeld. Light edgewear but a nice example of a fragile jacket. Inscribed by Allen to Frances (Herskowitz), signed "Uncle Fred". Together with a typed letter signed from Fred Allen to Frances Herskowitz on his Hirschfeld designed stationery dated 26 July 1954, the letter creatively set in one column.
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The Anglo-American Relationship Since 1783
by Allen, H. C.
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth, gilt-stamped letteirng on spine; printed dust jacket. Aside from some light rubbing at spine tips, book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed along the edges; some light creasing on rear panel. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him by the author. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval... Read More
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Portrait in Sepia (First Edition)
by Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers (Trans.)
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; photo-illustrated dust jacket; pp. 304. First edition stated. Book is without flaw, in faintly rubbed (near fine) dust jacket.
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A Kentucky Cardinal. A Story.
by Allen, James Lane
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Hardcover. Good. An uncommon early edition. Illustrated. pp. 147 + ads. Bound by Bayntun in full calf, original cloth covers bound in at rear; a.e.g. Spine worn and rubbed; cracking along front and rear joints. Tipped in is James Lane Allen's calling card, with a signed autograph inscription from Allen to the verso.
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Southwest. Illustrated by Paul Laune.
by Allen, John Houghton
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Advanced presentation copy number 259, signed by the author. Exceptionally fine copy. Attractive pictorial DJ is bright and clean but price-clipped.
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Proof of My Ministry, A Farewell Sermon preached in Union Street Church, Bangor, May 24, 1857.
by ALLEN, Joseph Henry
Bangor : Samuel S. Smith, 1857. Paperback. Fair. Original wraps. 15 pp. Stained. Sold as is.
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Without Feathers
by Allen, Woody
New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Allen on the half-title page, "To Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -- Best -- Woody Allen." An interesting association copy, linking two giants of film. Cloth-backed paper over boards; a bit sunned along edges of boards, with a faint stain at tail of spine. Dust jacket sunned along edges of front panel; dampstained on the verso.
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Without Feathers
by Allen, Woody
London: Sphere Books, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; just a bit rubbed and sunned. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate on the front paste-down and a laid-in note from Allen's assistant, "Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. Allen is just about to begin shooting another picture and is very busy now. May we let you know when there's a break in his schedule for drinks? Enclosed are your books, he was happy to sign... Read More
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Vox Latina. A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin.
by Allen, W. Sidney
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth. Prevous owner's signature and some scattered markings in ink.
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