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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005 Hard cover, octavo, in quarter-leather black leather binding with black cloth covered boards. A gilt lozenge decorates both covers. The spine has five raised bands with decoration and titles in gilt, 268pp. All edges gilt, with ribbon bookmark. Condition: As new. *** The story of Sally Miller (c1814 - ?), an American slave in who successfully won a Supreme Court case, Miller v. Belmonti (1845), arguing for her freedom. The argument was that she had been born as Salomé Müller and emigrated with her family from Germany as an indentured servant, not a slave.. Special Edition for the Classics of Law Library. Hard Cover. Fine.

Columbia, SC: Camden House, Inc., 1996 Hard cover, 8vo, in navy blue cloth with titles to front and spine in gold, First Edition, (xii), 282pp. English text. Condition: Fine, (like new). ** This is part of a series by Camden House of "Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture." A volume celebrating the career of the scholar Professor Robert Browning, (1911- 2000) who taught for many years at Hamilton College, and was a widely respected author on German poetry. This anthology, in English, contains articles from various scholars, including: Paul F. Casey, "Children and Images of Childhood in German Biblical Drama of the Sixteenth Century"; Thomas Kerth, Sibylle Schwartz and die Art der Bilder"; Gerald Gillespie, "Baroque High: Above it All with Balde"; George C. Schoolfield, "Memory's Lane: Simon Dach's Memel Epithalamium of January 18, 1655"; Anthony J. Harper, "Urbs Litteraria: On Researching the Literary Life of the Town in Seventeenth-Century Germany"; John Roger Paas, "The… Leer más

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth blocked with gold titles to spine, in the original dust jacket, now in mylar, xiv, 536 pp. **Condition: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. A comprehensive study of Latin American insect life, " in a part of the world known for its abundant, and endangered, life forms." Includes many photographs, drawings and references for both the casual collector and the scientist.**Author Charles L. Hogue (1935-1992) was Curator of Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as well as Professor at UCLA.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003 Inscribed and Signed by Author on Title Page. Advance Reader's Copy presumably, with pre-publication postcard laid in. Hardcover, with dust jacket, 390 pp. Edgar-winning author Ellis is partner at a Chicago law firm, and this legal thriller is his second novel. A fictional Chicago lawyer, Jon Soliday, finds his life ensnared in an indictment for murder, made doubly dangerous as falsified testimony to a previously dismissed incident further clouds his reputation. The St. Louis Dispatch called this novel ..."a stunning surprise. Expertly written and intricately plotted." Condition: Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.. Inscribed and signed by Author on Title page.. Advance Reader's Copy, First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022 Hard cover, in black paper covered boards, orange titles to the spine, with the dust jacket of pink and orange picturing a young boy at the piano, first American edition, 431 pp. Condition: Fine (as new). D/j: Fine in mylar. This is British author Ian McEwan's eighteenth novel, which The New Yorker has put upon it's Best Books of the Year List. The epic tale follows Roland Baines from his boarding school youth, through marriage to his cancer-stricken wife, who disappears into Cold War Germany, and onward through the twists and turns of life in the modern age. The Associated Press says," ...one of the joys of the novel is the way it weaves history into Roland's biography as well as the lives of other characters in the book. There are other themes here McEwan explores in depth--from envy to ambition to what truly constitutes a life well-lived -- but the pleasure in reading this novel is letting it wash over you." . First United States Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Random House, 2022 New, First Edition hard cover, 288 pp. The award-winning Maine author Elizabeth Strout continues the fictional life of Lucy Barton, in this recently published exploration of life during lockdown. Whisked away from New York to small-town coastal Maine by her well-meaning ex husband, Lucy is confronted with the loss of loved ones, the pain of isolation, but also new friendships and love which grow out of the ashes of the pandemic apocalypse. "With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humaness " (The Washington Post)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic. ..Rich with empathy and emotion, ..she vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace and possibilities that those long quiet days can inspire." (blurb) . First Edition. Hard… Leer más

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977 Hardcover, Folio, in oatmeal cloth boards with blue slipcase with owl print to front. Stunning reprint of the celebrated 1911 edition of poems illustrated by woodcuts, which inspired composers such as Poulenc to set them to music. Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) was a French "Fauvist" painter as well as a printmaker. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) was a French poet and art critic, who coined the terms "cubism" and "surrealism". Condition: Fine in Near Fine slipcase which has marks to label on its spine.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Raoul Dufy.

Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, a Division of Kraus-Thompson Organization Limited, 1970 The original works were published between 1915 and 1929 by the Milanese firm of Ulrico Hoepli. Hard cover, folio (7 ½ x 11 ¼ inches), in red buckram with titles in gilt to spines, 719, 646 ,368, and 325 pp. In Italian, with numerous full page black and white reproductions. Printed in Germany. A reprint of the well-illustrated cultural survey of social life, customs and artistic output of the second half of the Italian Quattrocento, produced under the auspices of Lodovico Maria Sforza (1452-1508), Duke of Milan, Lord of Genoa, and one of the Italian Renaissance's great patrons of the Arts. Each volume includes an index of names as well as an index of illustrations. Art historian Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri ( 1867-1928) wrote this work while Director of the State Archives of Milan and, later, while Director of the National Art Gallery of Bologna. Condition: Near Fine, tight clean and bright, with one… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991 167pp. Advanced Reader's Copy. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Ex-ad man and mystery reviewer Delman here pens a chess thriller, involving a colorful cast of characters. Homicide Lieutenant Jacob Horowitz and his private investigator wife, Helen, find two seemingly different cases of murder may be related...Condition: Fine, with Very Good Plus d/j, (minor scuffing.). First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+.

Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard College Library, 1983 Soft cover, quarto, 84pp. Illustrated catalog of works by Luther, and other important works which influenced the Reformation. Condition: Near Fine, with a small hole-punch in the corner of the back cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: The Institute of Mediaeval Music Ltd, 1971 Hard cover, quarto, pp XVI [4] 99 [1]; XXXIX 100-203 [1]. In publisher's blue cloth bindings with gold lettering. Dated 1971 & 1976. Condition: Near Fine. Some light marks to covers. The two leaves of photographic plates in volume 1 appear to have been bound upside down. ** Contains the musical scores for Caron's five polyphonic Masses and twenty polyphonic chansons. With introductory text in English and German, describing this elusive 15th century composer, sometimes referred to as Firminus Caron, who is known to have been active from 1460-1475. OCLC 22514051.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: MacMillan & Company, 1882 Hard cover, 8vo, in a contemporary rebinding of full polished calf gilt, signed "Riviere & Son," with the added Extra Illustration of 67 portraits of the Authors, First edition. Vol. I: (4) i-iv,1-395, (4). Vol II. (1) (6),1-392pp. Vol. III (4)(vi), 1-405pp., plus erratum page. Also with 67 unnumbered illustration plates. The three volumes have triple banding and filled corner roundels to top and bottom boards, the spine with five raised bands encompassing titles on red and brown onlaid morocco labels to the second and third compartments, and with a richly gilt decorative pattern showing three stages of a pomegranate blossom at the center of the other compartments, surrounded by a diamond pattern of small roundels and blossoms, all framed by additional floral sprigs, rope style banding, scalloped rolls and dotted lines upon the bands. Head and foot of spine, as well as board edges are also rolled with decoration. All edges gilt, marbled paper paste downs feature one… Leer más

London: private publication, 1985 Hard cover, 8vo., 50pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Robert George Collier Proctor (1868 - 1903) was an English bibliography and librarian, and an expert on incunabula and early typography. He was a friend of Sydney Cockerell, the famed associate of WIlliam Morris and collector of Kelmscott books. He disappeared in the Alps in 1903. Condition: Near Fine, with light bump to one corner.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Aberdeen: Impulse Books, 1973 87pp + index. Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅛"). In publisher's decorative cloth boards and illustrated dust jacket. Condition: About Fine in like dust jacket. *** The remarkable story of Betty Mouat (1825-1918), a Shetlander who was the sole passenger on a fishing boat, the "Columbine", from Grutness to Lerwick (two ports on the main Shetland island) where she intended to visit her sister and sell her knitting. Bad weather overtook them, and the skipper was lost overboard. The remaining two crewmen launched a rescue craft but failed to find the captain - and were unable to return to the Columbine. Betty drifted in the boat for nine days with little provisions, until she was rescued off the coast of Norway by fishermen. Her voyage was much celebrated, and Queen Victoria sent her a letter and a cheque for twenty pounds. Included in this book are contemporary photographs of Betty, her rescuers, and the places she visited.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Chicago: H.S. Stone & Company, 1898 Hard cover, 8vo, in medium tan cloth blocked in brown graphic designs by Massachusetts graphic artist Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) of flowering cornucopias, a cachepot of flowers above the orangey-red titles, below which are two putti flanking a tall, flower-filled jardiniere within an elaborate, neoclassical frame. Rear board has an image of a large, square-shaped floral display in a footed stand. 193 pp., First Edition. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The rubricated title page and historiated capitals at the beginning of each story also designed by Bradley. Printer's colophon at rear states: "Love's Dilemmas, by Robert Herrick, Arranged and Printed for H.S. Stone & Co., by Will Bradley at the University Press, Cambridge U.S.A." **CONDITION: Very Good. Spine a bit darkened. Light foxing within.** Massachusetts-born Author Robert Welch Herrick (1863-1938) wrote a number of novels around the turn of the twentieth century, while teaching English at the newly formed… Leer más

New York: New York University, 1971 Hard Cover. 8vo. in red buckram binding, 339pp. Condition: Near Fine. ** Authorized FACSIMILE of PhD. thesis from microfilm. Presentation inscription by Author to front pastedown. A discussion of the evolution of Walt Whitman's literary reputation in Italy, and how his work would effect later Italian poets. Extensive bibliography. . Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 Hard cover, 8vo., pp xiv [4] 526. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering and decoration blocked to spine. CONDITION: Near Fine. Former owner's signature, dated 1926, to ffep.. Some pages unopened. No signs of foxing, very clean. Lacking dust jacket. Small "bubble" to back cover. ** The famous 1759 picaresque novel by Laurence Sterne is a highly readable "autobiography" of an educated man well-versed in Latin authors such as Horace and yet aiming to "chat" with the reader in a colloquial way. Like "Don Quixote", the novel is really much ado about nothing, and it has entertained readers for over 250 years.** Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Anglo-Irish priest and novelist famous for two classic novels, "Tristram Shandy" and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" (1768). ** Boston publishers, Boni and Liveright, published some of the most important authors of the modernist era, before going bankrupt in 1929. OCLC 973465. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936 Second Edition. (First was in 1935.) Hard cover, 8vo, in salmon cloth with titles in gold to front and spine, in original, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 262 pp. Signed by author in ballpoint to ffep. Condition: Near Fine, in a Very Good Plus Dust Jacket with a few very minor chips, but still bright, colorful and not price clipped. A shadow of manufacturing glue runs along the gutters of both paste downs, which gives a vaguely browned appearance to same. **Illinois-born Author Dora Aydelotte (1878-1968 ) constructed her first novel from a series of short stories first appearing in Forum Magazine. Part romance, part homily of simple farm life, there is pie-eating, picnic-making, buggy-riding and more in this depiction of small town life of the main character, young Barbr'y Miller. One review said, "Dora Aydelotte is the saga woman of the corn lands of the Mississippi basin. Her sturdy farm girl is a memorable and profoundly lovable character in… Leer más

Madrid: Hauser Y Menet, 1956 Soft Cover, 53pp. Reproduction and transcription of the letter by Christopher Colombus announcing the discovery of the New World. Condition: Very Good Minus. Wear to spine with tear to the head of the spine.. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus.

Utica, NY: William W. Smith, 1895 This is an unnumbered Limited Edition of 200 copies "Printed at the Courier Press, of Clinton, New York, 1895." (colophon) Hard cover, demy 8vo (measuring 5 1/4 x 8 inches), in green cloth with banded gilding to boards and titles to upper left, and on the spine, 101 pp. Ex-Bowdoin College Library, with their withdrawal sticker. Inscribed presentation copy to same " from the Author" upon ffep. Library embossed stamp to title page. Printed on laid paper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very minor shelfwear at head and foot of spine, light toning. Very clean. Vintage hand inked library sticker to front board. The Author, Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, (1851-1829) was a graduate, and later 9th President, of New York's Hamilton College from 1893 to 1917. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he composed and published a number of volumes of verse and hymns. Much of his verses refer to the life of learning. OCLC 3181989. . Inscribed to the Library at… Leer más