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London: J. Wallis, No. 46, Pater-Noster-Row, 1800 Third edition "with many valuable additions". Hard cover, 12mo, in a modern Fine Binding (unsigned) of half blue morocco over green cloth, the spine with five raised bands, title stamped in gilt to spine, six full page engraved plates complete. Third Edition, xvi, 363 pp. Condition: Fine. Exterior is free of marks, except for shadow of glue along edge of cloth on rear board where it butts up to the spine leather. Some light markings to original preliminaries. A couple of light pencil notes left for the collector to divine significance of. Text is lightly age-toned, otherwise generally clean, and firm binding. Early ownership signature in old ink to title page. ** A really interesting encyclopedic sort of book, consisting of (Part I.) statements on moral philosophy, astrological science, discussions of time and calendar, and religion (vis-à-vis popery and the devil,) contrasted with the more "recreational" Part II., consisting of magic tricks,… Leer más

Nampula: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1956 Hard cover, 4to,( measuring 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in half calf with brown cloth-covered boards. Printed, bound by Tipographia Silvas, L.D.A., Lisbon. In Portuguese. 2 volumes bound into one with original pictorial wraps bound in. This consists of the official Portuguese government quadrennial report from the General Overseas Agency, on the African colony of Mozambique. Included are many maps, tables and articles describing the condition of the indigenous people, educational law and legislation, the legal system, public works, transportation, agriculture, etc. Many fold-out maps, in color. This was a transitional period, during which the roots of Mozambique's struggle for independence from four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese colonial control would begin, erupting into armed conflict within the next decade. The author was later made Vice Admiral of the Portuguese Navy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Cambridge, England: David Kindersley and Linda Lopez Cardozo, 1979 Soft cover, 4to, in gold card wraps over stiff card, with red print to cover and spine, multi-colored pages feature the calligraphy and artistic letterforms designed and executed by the artistic typographer and stone-cutter David Kindersley, MBE (1915-1995.) . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by David Kindersley.

New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2000 With signature card, in biro, by author laid in. Soft cover with paper wraps, 16vo., 17 pp. Satiric short holiday story featuring the famous bookstore owner and collector of mysteries, Otto Penzler, and a cat burglar named Kitty Manx. She must engage in a second story job in order to procure a suitable dust jacket for Otto's holiday gift. The seventh in this creative series of holiday handouts. Condition: Fine. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1974 Soft cover - staple bound wraps. 8vo. 19pp. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by author to back of front cover. ** Reprint article from The Polish Review, Vol XIX, on the works of Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf) (1933 - 1991). Kosiński was a Polish author, notably famous for having written the novel "Being There" (1971), and the screenplay for the 1979 movie of the same name, starring Peter Sellers. It tells of a gardener, Chance, who has a naive approach to life beyond gardening, but nonetheless drifts into Washington society and the company of the President... a remarkable story. OCLC 5543271103.. Signed by author. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 2000 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp xii 386. In publisher's quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. With photographic plates. Condition: Near Fine. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. *** "Great Heart" is the story of Leonidas Hubbard (1872-1903), Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) and the Scots-Cree George Elson (c1875-c1950), who set out on an expedition in Labrador, Canada in 1903. Their goal was to navigate by canoe from Lake Melville to Michikamau Lake via the Naskaupi River. They were woefully unprepared for the trip - so much so that the took the wrong river at the start, and ended up in unnavigable waters and were forced to turn back. Running out of provisions, Hubbard died from either starvation of exhaustion. With Introduction by Bill McKibben. *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the brainchild of Edward Livermore… Leer más

New York: Rizzoli, 1986 Hard cover, quarto, 270pp. Condition: Near Fine in like dust jacket. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. ** Lavishly illustrated with color reproductions of the works of the Turner Prize winners, Gilbert & George, who delight in representing themselves as art.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1970 Hard cover, 8vo., 2265 pp. over the 2 volumes. Sweeping survey of plays and playwrights from Ancient Greece to modern times, with critical essays interleaved. Condition: About Near Fine, with bookplate and ghost of tape marks to front free endpapers of each volume. Heavy set may require extra postage if shipped abroad.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Flagstaff: The Museum of Northern Arizona/The Grand Canyon Natural History Association, 1964 Hard cover,12mo, in green cloth illustrated cover stamped in gold, 259pp, First hardback edition. Printed by Northland Press, Flagstaff. The Author, W. B. MacDougall explains in the Preface this is intended to bridge the gap between the needs of the park biologists making surveys of plants and the needs of the more casual visitor trying to identify what they see. The drawings are by Mr. Barton A. Wright, Curator of the Museum of Northern Arizona. Features a number of color photographic reproductions, black and white photos as well as a few pages of line drawings. This series came out first in soft wraps, and includes a variety of ethnographic, historical as well as natural history content. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Barton A. Wright.

Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut State, 1985 208pp. Inscribed to front free endpaper - hard to make out if this is the author or not. Condition: Book is about Fine. Dustjacket has a few very minor marks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927 Hard cover, 8vo., pp xvii [1] 271. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering and decoration blocked to spine. Black and gold decorative endpapers and matching historiated capitals adorn the text. CONDITION: Near Fine. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Former owner's signature, dated 1928, to ffep. No signs of foxing. ** "The Golden Ass" or, "Metamorphoses", as it was named by the author, Apuleius (c124 - c170), and is the only surviving complete novel in Latin from ancient Rome. It has been called, by some, the original picaresque novel, telling of the travels of Lucius, a man looking for adventure and magic. When he and his lover, Photis, see a witch transform herself into a bird, Lucius begs Photis to do the same for him. Unfortunately, Lucius is instead transformed into an ass, subsequently stolen, and sold several times.** Part of the "Black and Gold Library" from Boston publishers, Boni and Liveright, who, in addition to popularizing a catalogue of… Leer más

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948 Hardcover. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5" x 7 ⅜"). 228pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection contains stories concerning "Genius Loci" - a classical term meaning "guardian spirits of places". This sums up the atmosphere of these stories nicely, with their aura of brooding presences somewhat akin to Algernon Blackwood's famous story, "The Willows". *** The dust jacket design is by American artist Frank Wakefield. *** Condition: A Near Fine, fresh copy with no ownership marks or underlining, in a Near Fine dust… Leer más

New York: St Martin's Press, 1991 249pp. Signed by Author on Title Page. The fourteenth novel of the series featuring Lovejoy, English antiques dealer and rogue. This adventure has him travelling to America (to escape another escapade gone wrong) and working his way from New York to the west coast. He fights a ring of antiques scammers, and enters the nefarious world of an American gambling tournament, courting danger around every corner. Condition: Near Fine in like dustjacket (now protected in mylar).. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Westerham, Kent: Privately Printed at The Westerham Press, 1961 Soft cover, 4to, in "chinesisches Papier" gold-flecked paper wraps over stiff card, hand printed in red and black upon grey Arnold & Foster paper, 20 pp., First Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Frontispiece illustration. In German and English. Colophon states this publication was made to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Maximilian Society in England, given by its English members. (Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens der Maximilian-Gesellschaft im Oktober 1961 von den in England lebendend Mitgliedern gestiftet.) Selections from the foundational thinker and father of Romanticism, author, poet and artist's written English of different periods is given, including a number of letters to his sister Cornelia, from the 1760's. He was multi-lingual, and is quoted in Freidenthal's introduction that he did not care for formal instruction in English grammar!**CONDITION: Near Fine, bright, clean and with some very minor wear… Leer más

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1979 Hard cover, quarto, 442pp. The Huntington Library was founded by Henry Edwards Huntington (1850 - 1927), an American railroad tycoon and book collector. The library has a vast collection (7 million manuscripts and 400,000 rare books) including a vellum Gutenberg Bible, and the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer, an illuminated copy of the famous Canterbury Tales. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899 230pp + ads. Futuristic novel from 1897, predicting the mechanical inventions fifty years into the future, involving submarine travel and tunnel boring through the planet. Frank Richard Stockton (1834 - 1902) was a popular author of children's fairy tales, two of which were later to be illustrated by Maurice Sendak ("The Griffin and the Minor Canon" and "The Bee-Man of Orn"). Condition: Almost Very Good, with some shelfwear and light dust-soiling to covers.. Hard Cover. Good+.

Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1980 354pp. A modern compilation of Dunsany's stories illustrated throughout. Condition: Light foxing to frontispiece. Shelfwear to dustjacket at edges and heavier at corners.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+. Illus. by Tim Kirk.

Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1990 388pp. Writings from nineteenth century American women, organized by month. Condition: Slight shelfwear, else as new.. Signed by author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1925 Noted book collector and essayist on books, Claude Prance's copy, with his Malta address label on front pastedown, his signature in pencil, and annotation on rear end paper. Hard cover, small 8vo., in quarter green cloth with lighter green paper covered boards. Cream paper label to front board and spine titles thereon in black. Two edges untrimmed. Dust jacket in cream laid paper with green titles and publisher's advert to rear. Condition: Very Good. Stain to spine label. Moderate foxing to end papers, and occasionally light foxing within. Age toned. Dust jacket is Very Good, with small crease to front, chip to spine edge and some light foxing. Spine area a bit darkened. Protected in mylar. Contains the poem,"Roundabouts and Swings." This book of verse, originally published in 1912, was the first literary venture of Irish author and poet Patrick R. Chalmers (1872-1942.) A banker by trade, he would switch careers in his 40's and devoted himself exclusively to… Leer más

Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart and Co., 1874 Reprint. "Richly illustrated with Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, Executed in the Finest Style of the Art, Mostly from Original Designs by Distinguished Artists." Hard cover quarto (measuring 8 ¾ x 11 inches) in full leather with a design of round, embossed borders of filigree and banding in black, highlighted with owners' name on center front in gilt: " Rosa B. Closson.," 488 pp. Gilt is used to highlight the raised cords of the six compartments on the spine, which also has additional embossed design in black. The turn-ins are also rolled in a gilt filigree pattern, which shows off nicely upon the colorful marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, and all board edges rolled with gilt. Chromolithographed title page in color. Includes poetry by the likes of Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Whittier, Harte and Cooper. The editor, Henry Coppee (1821-1895,)attended Yale, was a graduate of West Point, and fought in the Mexican-American War. His published… Leer más