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New York: A New Directions Book / James Laughlin, 1954 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Bound by Rick Tuttle in full metallic blue leather, with a sculpted wood boat attached at the top of the cover, a flowing wake of water behind it, and water endpapers. Half-title, photographic frontis, 64pp. Inner joint starting between frontis and title page, paper thinned with erasure on dedication page. Binding is tight. BEAT POET. Includes signed correspondence from the binder to the previous owner.

[Lakewood, Colorado]: Centipede Press, 2008 LIMITED EDITION, this being #286 of 500 Copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Scarce, with only 3 copies in OCLC. 592pp, [3], bound in black textured paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight, silk ribbon intact, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. American Horror Tales.

Kerala, India: Original Manuscript Circa 18th - 19th Century. From the Collection of Jacques Marchais [1887-1948] who in 1938 opened an Indian and Tibetan Art Gallery in Manhatten, to fund her desire to build a center of Tibetan Art on her property in Staten Island, showing her label on the wooden cover. The polished, bevelled wooden boards measure 9-1/2" long by 1-1/4" top to bottom. The stack measures 2-1/4" thick with the wooden covers, and 1-3/4" thick without the wooden covers, with a jute cord running through two holes in the book. With 82 leaves total, which were inscribed with a sharp stylus, then covered in ink made from oil and lampblack, wiping off the excess to reveal the Malayalam script. A few small annotations in pencil, in English, reveal some of the translations, *"Errhine for Coma" [Errhine means to be stuffed into the nose] *"Fever pill" *"Cure for sundry genital disorders" and *"Ginger powder". Malayalam script is… Leer más

New York: Adelphi Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing, stray offsetting to the endpapers, light spine end bumps. ; Signed by the author and Frederic Delano and J. H. Rand in ink on a tipped-in colophon on the front pastedown, numbered 610 of the "first edition" to inscribee Charles A. Meyer. Irving Fisher was an American economist and Progressive social campaigner who made important contributions to utility theory, general equilibrium, markets capital and interest rates. He was equally an advocate of vegetarianism, prohibition, and eugenics. Scarce economics title, even in light of presumed 100s of limited editions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Collection of Signatures .

Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City, NY. 1927. Hardcover in first state dust jacket. First Edition stated on copyright page, 1927 on title page. Black boards with orange paper labels at front and spine. A few light stains to boards. Faded topstain. Unclipped dust jacket ("two dollars net") has some losses along top, head and heel of spine and at corners, a 2" closed tear, stains (see photo). Brodart sleeved. Very Good+/Good. Scarce in jacket. 196 pp.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate's "indispensable" masterpiece, significant "as the most massive statement made, up to that time, on the position of woman in the modern world." (Burgess). Tall, thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket (photograph of Lessing to rear panel) designed by William Belcher, priced 30s. About Fine (dust-soiled edges, mild offsetting to end papers), square, tight, probably unread; about Fine jacket (lightly dust soiled back panel, several edge nicks), still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century, p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks, each a different color, each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London's leftist and intellectual… Leer más

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine stamped in green, top edge stained green, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in green and black; without the slipcase. Small printed book plate of New York attorney and bibliophile Harry C. Goebel to front end-paper (Goebel designed and commissioned designs for book plates; see Eastern University's Goebel Bookplate Collection) Light smudge to front board, else a pristine example. Connolly 27. Modern Library 100, 30, Guardian 100. Harvey A46b. Special edition of this modern classic (first published 1915), for which Ford supplied a "dedicatory letter" to his wife, Stella: "I have always regarded this as my best book." John Rodker famously called The Good Soldier the "best French novel in the… Leer más

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

London: Roger Fenton, 1860. Original albumen print stereoview by famed Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton (London, 1819-1869). On the verso of the stereoview card Fenton has SIGNED his name and written the following inscription: "The Cherwell from under Magdalen bridge, part of Magdalen college to the left, the water walk to the right." The autograph and inscription are guaranteed to be original and authentic. Fenton's name is also blindstamped on the front left margin of the mount. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis, who was one of the most important stereoview collectors in the U. S. The New York Public Library's "Robert N. Dennis Collection" includes more than 70,000 stereoviews from his collection, many of which can be viewed on the library's website. The images are clean and reasonably bright; there is some staining of the mount along the edges on front and back... SIGNED. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Roger Fenton. 3… Leer más

Wien: Gebr?der Paetel, 1900. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo. 244pp. Original wrappers preserved. 3 wormholes on the lower part of the margins.Some occasional foxing. In general a very good copy. German text. First edition.Very rare.