New York NY: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. G/G. 1976. . Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Sm 4to. 334 pp. DJ rubbed minor fraying cover edges discolored . Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. hardcover
London: Printed by James Cotterel 1667. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Two works bound in one volume. "Poems" iii 68 pages of text. Heavily browned and irregularly discolored with some minor early marginalia with several corners or small chips repaired. "A Sermon." v 30 pages; Printed for Brabazon Aylmer London 1683. Title continues ".Chappel Octob. 29. 1682." Wing 2nd ed.; M685. There are a few small stains but the text reamains clean and in excellent condition. Bound in circa 1840 three quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards; minor to moderate ubbing and shelfwear to the binding. Both of these are highly uncommon rarely offered on the market. Both are first editions. While these measure only 8 inches in height they are indeed quartos. Printed by James Cotterel Hardcover
Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. xx 142 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with cloth spine and paper-covered boards. Moderate fading to the spine and rubbing to the extremities. No dustjacket. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover
Paris: E. Plon et Cie 1880. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. Third edition. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Two volume set; complete. Black leather spines marbled paper-covered boards and dark cloth covered corners; moderately rubbed and worn remaining intact and attractive. The first few pages of the first volume are water-stained and a previous owner's name is on the title page. The half-title page of the second volume has a previous owner's name the same. The texts of both volumes are moderately foxed. Minor soiling to the closed page edges and a few pages with creases to the upper corners. Two quires small gatherings of pages are loosened from the text remaining attached. Text is in French. The story is set in Paris and the story turns upon the unraveling of the plots of a group of Nihilist refugees. It contains careful character studies both Russian and French. Translation of title: The Lost Casket. Detective/Crime Fiction. E. Plon et Cie Hardcover
Paris: Obelisk Press 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; 5 loose gatherings pp. 40 3 plus frontispiece. From a limited edition of 200 numbered copies this one out of sequence and unnumbered though inscribed by Miller in the year of publication on the FFEP: "To Anne Poor from Henry Miller Paris 8/15/37 p.s. Jetzt musste die Welt versinker! Et comment!" Anne Poor like Miller was a painter. Wraps heavily chipped and water-stained; frontispiece water-stained on the verso though perfectly presentable. <br/><br/> Obelisk Press paperback
Nurnberg: Zufinden bey Paulus Fursten Kuntsthandler 1657. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 16mo. Engraved title page 20 leaves of introductory text followed by 71 leaves of text followed by four leaves of black and white copper-engraved plates numbered I-IIII followed by 226 leaves of black and white copper-engraved plates numbered 1-226. Each engraved leaf is engraved on one side only. Original full leather binding is moderately worn on the exterior hinges and extremities with minor warping of front board. Front endpapers are lacking. Minor staining to the fore-edge of the majority of pages affecting the margins only. Minor foxing scattered throughout in several instances affecting the plates. Previous owner's stamp circa 1900 on title page and half title page and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper: Henry von Wackerbarth Chicago. The final two leaves of plates are creased on the edge not affecting the engravings and the rear endpapers are heavily creased. A very attractive first edition of this work. No author is stated on the title page but Sibmacher is mentioned in the text. "gedruckt bey Christoff Gerhard zufinden bey Paulus Fursten." Title continues "aussgebildet zuersehen. Erste-Theil.". Zufinden bey Paulus Fursten Kuntsthandler Hardcover
Lugd. Batavor; Leiden: Ex officina Elzeviriana 1630. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 343 i.e. 347 pages followed by xiii pages of index; Numbers 183-186 repeated in pagination. Original full vellum binding with minor to moderate soiling and rubbing. Meausures 10 cm 4 inches height. The entirety of the text is affected by damp-staining not visible on the binding. Engraved title page is printed in red and black with a small ink mark near the bottom edge. On pages 181-343 is contained the work: Abrahami Ortelii et Ioannis Viviani Itinerarivm per nonnulas Gallae belgiae partes. Ad clarissimum virum Gerardum Mercatorem Cosmographum. Editio altera castigatior Plantiniana anni MDLXXXIV. Protected in a custom clamshell box. Netherlands Belgium Description and Travel. Ex officina Elzeviriana Hardcover
Philadelphia: Dropsie College Press 1953. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xviii 370 pages of text. Hardcover binding is moderately sunned on spine with minor shelfwear. No dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper "To Mr. David.with the compliments and greetings of signed Abraham A. Neuman Aug. 11 1953.". Dropsie College Press Hardcover
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1681. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Seventh edition. Quarto 4to. Hardcover binding: circa 1875 three quarter leather binding is slightly to moderately rubbed and worn with heavily rubbed exterior hinges. Endpapers renewed. Illustrated by a frontisportrait of Cowley which is backed strengthened on the reverse at the fore and bottom edge. Text in several sections: An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley Written to Mr. M. Clifford 24 pages; Elegia 3 pages; i blank; Preface of the Author 12 pages; Miscellanies 41 pages; i blank; The Mistress: or Several Copies of Love-Verses 80 pages; Pindarique Odes Written in Imitation of the Stile and Manner of the Odes of Pindar 70 pages; Davideis A Sacred Poem of the Troubles of David. In Four Books 154 pages; Davideidos Liber Primus 23 pages; i blank; Verses Written on Several Occasions 42 pages; A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy 43-148 pages. Title page with three previous owner names on it and the title page and following two pages are strengthened on the bottom and fore-edge. Minor staining to most page edges from exposure to moisture: no odor. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper: G.C.H. & D.U.V. Tregaer Phillips Collection. Measures over 11.5 inches height. Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange Hardcover
Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press 1956. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Folio. 20 page booklet with color front cover illustration with text printed and illustrated in red an black. Booklet is signed and inscribed by Rattner "To Herbert L. Sterrett my best wishes and compliments signed Abraham Rattner." Twenty four loose folio plates are included of which six are printed in color plates are not signed by the artist. Booklet and plates measure 16.75 inches in height and are in excellent condition with only minor offsetting to verso of plates not affecting images and are protected in the original clamshell box. The box is illustrated in red and black and is moderately to heavily worn rubbed and soiled with minor splitting at several seams remaining intact attractive and functional. University of Illinois Press Paperback
New York NY: Bloch Publishing Company 1950. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xviii 128 pages of text. Blue hardcover cloth binding; protected in stiff archival mylar. No dustjacket. Illustrated with six black & white plates including maps drawings and portraits. With a Preface by Dr. Solomon Grayzel. With an introduction biographical sketch of the author and explanatory notes by the translator. Translated from the Hebrew by Mesch. Inscribed and signed by the wife of the translator Vellie Mesch to friends in Chicago in 1965. First edition. Bloch Publishing Company Hardcover
United Kingdom: Not published 1832. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Painter of Horses. Stampless cover dated April 19th 1832; one page letter to Henry Graves 1806-1892 leading London printseller saying that he has "tried to procure you a ticket for Private View at the RA without success" but he may see many more members "on the varnishing days" suggesting Sir Edwin Landseer 1802-1873 "he being on the Council has 4. I have but 2 tickets" ending "Yrs truly in haste". One-side 8vo leaf with conjugate address leaf postmarked Lamb's Conduit Street. Corner of address stuck under seal. Cooper was groom to Sir Henry Meux and in 1809 unable to afford a portrait of the horse "Frolic" to which he was greatly attached bought an introduction to painting in oils. His master bought the resulting canvas and Cooper never looked back. Henry Graves was at that time in partnership with F.G. Moon and Thomas Boys. He engraved all the most famous pictures of his day paying Landseer a total of pounds sterling 50000 for copyrights alone and 20000 to the owner of Frith's "A Railway Station" for the painting the engraved plate and the list of subscribers. Not published Paperback
Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1648. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. xviii 342 pages of text. Defective copy lacking five plates the frontis and a final engraved table. Attractive early-to-mid-18th century leather binding with moderate wear to the hinges spine extremities and corners. Raised bands gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Decorative marbled endpapers and blank endsheets supplied at time of binding. Present is the full-page engraved portrait of Michel Larcher engraved armorial dedication to Larcher and the engraved title page following page 58. A complete copy has the plate numbers 151 and 156 used twice totalling 158 plates showing plans and designs of perspective of which 153 only are present in this copy. Lacks plate numbers 110 151 both 154 and 155. However early hand-drawn facsimiles of plates 151 one of two and 155 are supplied and bound-in leaving three images unrepresented. The majority of the plates are double-sided. Plate 156 is in less than good condition with heavy staining and soiling. Engraved title page is repaired with early conservator's tape with no loss. Pages 168 through 193 are bound out of order. Several leaves are affected by damp staining and minor rippling; approximately 15 front and 30 rear. The title page and several adjacent leaves as well as a few at the rear of the text are heavily stained. Some of the staining appears to originate from washed-out markings -- notations to which an attempt at removal were made -- that are in blank areas mainly in the front and rear pages but also in the blank areas in the introduction. Includes Desargues New Theory at the end with demonstrations. Protected in a modern circa 1950 slipcase decorated with marbled endpaper the seams of which are detached at the top edge. Desargues 1593-1661 was a French mathemetician and a founder of modern Geometry. With Pascal he introduced the method of perspective; treated conic sections as projections of circles formulated the so-called Arguesian transformation; developed the theory of involution and of transversals; defined parallels as lines that intersect at infinity. Measures 6-5/8" tall by 4-1/2" wide; printed on thick paper with ample margins. 20th century bookplate of Paul and Verner Mac Alister on front pastedown and a neatly handwritten identification on the 2nd front endpaper. On the same leaf is a contemporary name or marking. French France Fortifications Conics Cartography Projective and Descriptive Geometry. Early editions of Desargues works are quite uncommon. Pierre Des-Hayes Hardcover
Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press 1925. Book. Hardcover. Americana; politics; 22p; 29.7cm; 1/2 tan cloth paper covered boards soiled; frontis portrait of Lincoln U. S. president 1861-65; 2 illus.; facsimile of speech; introduction by Oliver R. Barrett b. 1873; p. 17-19 "Mr. Lincoln at home" column from Springfield Journal Nov. 1 1858; p. 21-22 printed letter from John H. Morgan. University of Chicago Press Hardcover
Detroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback
Detroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; slavery; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback
National Association for Armenian Studies & Research 1986. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. National Association for Armenian Studies & Research paperback
Sure Seller Incorporated 1990. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Sure Seller, Incorporated hardcover
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 113pp hardback grey boards black-lettered in wrapper very good in a very good wrapper . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2017. Eerdmans hardcover
SPCK Publishing 1979. Soft cover. Good. Type: Book Has some light general reading/shelfwear with some speckling/tanning to page edges - otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. SPCK Publishing paperback
The Jewish Publication Society. Hardcover. 0827600038 We ship daily good service buy with confidence . Very Good. The Jewish Publication Society hardcover
2007-06-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Morgan James Publishing 2015. Soft cover. Good. Type: Book Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Morgan James Publishing paperback
London: Masters & Co. xvi 371pp hardback black cloth gilt ownership details to first page good and uncommon . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1906. Masters & Co hardcover
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