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Moscow / Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [State Publishers], 1928. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps; pp. 84, [4]. Covers lightly dust-soiled, and wrinkled along yapp edges; ownership signature on half-title p.; vendor stamps on rear cover; otherwise an excellent copy, internally clean.

Petrograd: Proletkul't, 1920. Paperback. Very Good. Original illustrated wrappers; pp. 56. Spine chipped; covers rubbed, mostly at corners; paper softened with age, fragile. Not in Kilgour, and scarce, even in library holdings.

Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1966. Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good+. Illustrated wraps; illustrated dust jacket; pp. [157], illustrated throughout. Number 18 from a limited edition of 150 copies. Spine a little creased, else fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed, mostly along edges; tiny chips at spine tips and corners. An attractive copy.

Moscow / Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo [State Publishers], 1930. First Edition, 1 of 3000 copies. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; pp. [190], [2] (ads). Covers lightly rubbed and soiled; spine tips gently bumped; bookplate removed from inside front cover. Ownership signature and stamp on title-p., otherwise internally clean, most pages unopened. Scarce in its original format.

Berlin: Skythen, 1920. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps; pp. 18, with title-pages in German and Russian, though text is in entirely in Russian. Covers lightly chipped and torn along the edges; text block detached and a bit brittle, but clean and perfectly legible. Fragile. Scarce.

Moskva: Tipografiia Sablina, 1911. Paperback. Fine. Original printed wraps; 4to; pp. 152. Aside from some very gentle rubbing along the edges, book is fine. Only one title by Leont'ev appears in Kilgour, 820, from 1876.

London: T. Rickaby, 1798. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary dark brown specked calf, ornate border gilt-stamped on boards, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label, gilt-stamped ornament on spine; 12mo; pp. 22, [2], 116, with vignette illustrations throughout (etchings by Gardiner after drawings by Harding). Some light scuffing along spine and edges of boards, otherwise binding is lovely. Text block a bit age-toned throughout, with some off-setting of etchings onto facing pages. Armorial bookplate of John Mark Gourgas. A pretty little book, and uncommon.

Parigi (Paris): Presso la Vedova Herissant, 1780-1782. Full Calf. Very Good. Complete set of 12 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt. Bindings rubbed, but a sound set overall. Extra shipping charges will apply.

Italy, ca 1790. Hardcover. Very Good. 182 leaves, 8vo (220 x 158 mm). In Italian. Written in cursive in dark ink. Written in the right-hand column with notes and diagrams in pencil and ink in the left column. (Fading to first part, some minor staining, a few quires becoming disbound.) 18th-century paste-paper covered boards (worn). A series of astronomy lectures presumably in Oriani’s hand, with a note on the front free endpaper from Professor Rossi attributing the manuscript to Oriani. Comprising some 36 lessons with additional information about physics and astronomy at the end, likely delivered to his students at the college of Brera. Oriani studied astronomy under Joseph Louis Lagrange and was ordained a priest in 1776. He joined the Jesuit-operated Brera Observatory and was later appointed by Napoleon as director of the Milan Observatory in 1802. He used his calculations to prove that Uranus was a planet rather than a comet, and was named a member of the French Academy of Science, a Fellow of… Leer más

New York: Sanctuary Books & Harper's Books, 2009. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Spiral bound catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Harper's Books (June 6 - August 7, 2009). 18 photographs taken over election day, election night, and inauguration day. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the photographer and with an original 8 X 10 signed print.

New York: Sanctuary Books & Harper's Books, 2009. Soft cover. Fine. Spiral bound catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Harper's Books (June 6 - August 7, 2009). 18 photographs taken on election day, election night, and inauguration day. One of 150 copies signed and numbered by the photographer.

Moscow: Sinodal’naia tipografiia, 1902. Hardcover. Fair. “With the blessing of the Most Holy Governing Synod.” The Obikhod is the standard liturgical book of the Orthodox Church. Although the words on the title page are mostly in Russian and not in Church Slavonic, the script is the old-style Cyrillic in use before Peter I. This is typical of publications of the Russian Orthodox Church to the present day, as is the rendition of numbers (in this case, the year of publication) using Cyrillic letters. Old leather binding, very worn, with piece missing from spine. A good copy internally.

Paris: Mourlot Freres, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 9 of 300 examples, signed by Eluard and the artist, Engel-Pak, slipcased with a second copy, an out-of-series proof, unsigned, but with an original drawing for the title drawn by Engel-Pak on thin paper and initialled (design not used), hand-lettered by Eluard, and with three additional sheets hand-lettered by Eluard for the title, the colophon, and a plate list (this last also unused). Housed in two chemises within a vellum-backed slipcase. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (32.5 x 23.5 cm); 16 sheets printed in color lithography; plus the additional material noted above in the second copy, which is printed on paper 1 cm taller than the published work. This is likely a participant's copy, possibly Eluard's own.

Moskva: Sov. pisatel, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. Original orange wrappers, printed in black; pp. [40], plus 4 lithographs by Maria Siniakova. Covers lightly dust-soiled; spine chipped. First published in 1915 [Kilgour 677].

Leningrad: Publishing House of Writers in Leningrad, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. Original grey cloth, lettering stamped in silver on spine, in blind on upper board; dust jacket printed in grey and blue. Spine tips and corners bumped; ownership markings on rear paste-down; some very light foxing here and there. Dust jacket torn and heavily chipped, but uncommon, and not too shabby in mylar.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Paper-covered boards, in acetate jacket and slipcase. Reproduces Avedon's b/w photographic portraits on nearly every page. Boards lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; small scattered chips along joints and at spine tips. Acetate dust jacket chipped and torn. In rubbed slipcase with a few spots of soiling; tape repair along top edge. An excellent reading copy -- tight, bright and internally clean.

London: Printed for W. Nicoll, 1762. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarter calf and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; pp. 52. A little light scuffing at spine tips, previous owner's (tasteful) bookplate on front paste-down.

Philadelphia: Privately Published, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards, paper spine label. Number 162 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Spine and edges of boards rather worn, but internally tight, bright, and clean.

Dublin: Joseph Blundell, 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Later marbled paper over boards, backed in speckled calf, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; 8vo; pp. 59. Boards rubbed; corners bumped. Text block is bright and clean. Scarce -- OCLC locates just 5 copies.

New York, 1820. 8vo. Disbound wrappers. pp. 82 of ? Title leaf lacking portion of blank area at the bottom (15% or so of total leaf). The concept of medical police is quite interesting in the context of urban social history. The "police" focused on everything for occupational hazards to prostitution, abandoned children, and public safety such public alcoholism and toxins and poisons that could be an immediate hazard to public heath. David Hosack was noted American physician but remains "widely known as the doctor who tended to the fatal injuries of Alexander Hamilton after his duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804" His second wife was the wealthy widow of the merchant and shipowner Henry A. Coster, and brought $300,000 and seven children from her earlier marriage into the Hosack household. The newfound wealth enabled enabled Hosack to live and entertain lavishly- the splendor of his parties was the talk of the town, and he built an opulent baronial estate on the Hudson. His fortune was lost in 1835… Leer más