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191593 p. Top edge gilt. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), 1916 on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
1959rif. 16009Collins, London and Glasgow 1959. XXXII, 1376 p. Green cloth. Slight traces of use. Good and clean copy. Printed on thin paper.
1994Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, slight shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Jarry on cover shown in costume in with high, too-small crown, big nose and huge, targeted belly. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor and Cyril Connoly.
2000rif. 68495London: Mouritz. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Stiff unmarked book in clean black cloth; in crisp dust jacket with two faint coffee stains on spine. Illustrated endpapers.; 6.5 x 9"; 366 pages; This is F. M. Alexander’s fourth and final book first published 1941 last revised by him in 1946. It presents his most mature and comprehensive statement of the Alexander Technique after more than 45 years of teaching experience. Alexander discusses the principle of “universal constant” in human functioning — the idea that the use of the self posture movement reaction is a constant factor that affects every aspect of life health and performance. He expands on earlier themes of conscious control sensory appreciation inhibition and the prevention of harmful habits applying them to broader issues of education health and human evolution. The Mouritz 2000 edition edited by Jean M. O. Fischer is the definitive scholarly version. It includes: The complete text of Alexander’s final 1946 edition. Additional material from earlier editions. A new foreword by Walter Carrington. Extensive editorial notes over 200 notes Introductory material references bibliography and index . 2000. 0952557444 . Mouritz hardcover
1929rif. 18049NY: Horace Liveright. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1929. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Second printing before publication February 1929. Publisher's full gray blocked cloth gilt and black lettering and decoration on spine and cover top edge black. Illustrated with 24 photographs facsimilies and reproductions. Mary Desti Dempsey 1871-1931 left Chicago for Paris in 1901 with her then year-old son Preston Sturges. In Paris she met and formed a life-long friendship with dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan. Desti who adopted this name because it sounded like d'Este undertook various enterprises in Europe including a cosmetic business. She frequently accompanied Duncan in her travels and occasionally Duncan lived with her. Duncan was staying with Desti in Nice at the time of her sudden death in an automobile accident on September 14 1927. Following Duncan's death Desti a casual writer of both fiction and non-fiction wrote a Duncan biography The Untold Story: The Life of Isadora Duncan New York: Liveright 1929. Isadora Duncan's autobiography My Life New York: Liveright 1927 recorded events through 1921 prior to the period when she opened a dance school in Moscow. Desti intended to tell the rest of the story. . Spine very lightly sunned unmarked tight square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket now in Mylar is chipped and worn at the edges with some loss at the heel. VERY GOOD/FAIR. . Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 281 pp . Horace Liveright hardcover
196732p. Paperback Very good condition
1929rif. 15363Camden NJ: RCA Victor Co. Inc. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1929. Eighth Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over dark blue boards. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs. . Rear cover has two holes and one gouge in the fabric exposing the board underneath rubbing to head and heel of faded spine rubbing to tips front hinge is starting former owner's embossed name and address on title page unmarked square and clean. VERY GOOD-. . B&W photogrphs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 432 pp . RCA Victor Co., Inc. hardcover
1975No marks or inscriptions. Crease down centre of spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing/light creasing to upper edge and central crease down spine. 249pp. A suspense novel of planned assassinations leading up to the perpetrator's ultimate target. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
1925rif. 006711London: Ernest Benn Ltd. First printing of this play in the Contemporary British Dramatists series published one year after the play was first performed. Bookplate to the inside front cover dated ownership on the front free endpaper 1925 neat annotation to the Dramatis Personae to indicate the two main actors at the Royalty Theatre 1924-25 Noel Coward and Lillian Braithwaite. Natural tanning of the pages minor wear only to this somewhat ephemeral publication. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Card Covers. First Thus First Printing. 1925. Ernest Benn Ltd unknown
1990Sequel to 'Goatsong'. Eurpolis of Pallene, Athenian comic dramatist, gentlemen farmer, failed husband and now citizen soldier has survived the disastrous Sicilian campaign, only to be accused of treason on his return to Athens. Hilarious fictional autobiography of Eupolis, rival of Aristophanes inAttic Comedy, and acute observer of the vagaries of Athenian politics. Book
1973rif. 27437London: The Scolar Press Ltd. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. 4 x 7 in. Cloth and marbled paper boards. Facsimile of the 1795 edition. In four volumes printed in two. Condition is FINE ; both vols are like brand new on all points. PO's bookplate on front pastedown. Drama. RGR. The Scolar Press Ltd. hardcover
1918Cover Illustration - King Albert Enters Into His Own. From Mourning to Rejoicing - The Strasbourg Statue (Illustration). Exit Mediaevalism - editorial. A Surrender Without Parallel - The Great Naval Drama in the North Sea, by Percival A. Hislam. Ending the Vain Dream of German Sea-Dominion - photos. France on the Rhine - Alcase restored at last to the Alsatians - article by Hamilton Fyfe. 1870 - End of Alsace-Lorraine's Martyrdom - 1981 - Photos. Great Britain's Misused Island Gift to Germany, Heligoland (photos). Photo of General Currie taking the salute in the Grand Parade in Mons. Photo of Canadians marching through Mons. Royal welcome home for prisoners of war - photos. "The King is Coming" - story by Sydney A. Moseley. Photos of Lille during and after occupation. The Secret City of Arras - article. Tragedy of the Sea Revealed after Four Years - The H.M.S. Audacious, lost off the Irish coast - 3 photos. Pan-German Republicanism? - article by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
182134 p. Foxed. Lacks fly leaves. 24mo. 140 mm. Disbound. AI BX 7
1978rif. 004246New York: Grove Press 1978 First printing first edition as stated. Signed by David Mamet directly on the title-page. Light toning to jacket flaps else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Grove Press hardcover
2015rif. 54494Peccadillo Pictures, 2015. Auflage: UK Import DVD DVD
1959pp. xxiv, 108. Illustrated with drawings by T. M. Cleland, printed by The Photogravure and Color Company, and hand-colored by Walter Fischer; designed by Mr. Cleland; set in monotype Janson on Curtis Ragston paper. Sm. 4to. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in full maroon cloth, with black leather gold letter spine label, sides embossed in blind design by Mr. Cleland. Original slip case. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist, M. T. Cleland. A Fine Copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W37
1916rif. 0005542Oxford: University Press 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. engravings. Quarto 231pp. three quarter blue crushed morocco marbled endpapers; scuffed with top joint repaired coat of arms in gilt on top cover. "The nucleus of the Welbeck collection of miniatures consists of portraits of members and connexions of the families of Cavendish and Holles which were inherited by the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles wife of Edward Harley second Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. To them were added miniatrues of the Harley family into which she married and those painted for and acquired by her husband he being the son of Robert Harley who was successively Speaker Secretary of State Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer in the reign of Queen Anne and who was created Earl of Oxford and Earl Morimer in 1711." 29 plates of portraits - most multiple images including British royalty Shakespeare Inigo Jones Abraham Cowley and European royalty. Laid-in is a sheet of stationery from Welbeck Abbey presenting this volume "With the Duke of Portland's Compliments" in holograph. University Press hardcover
1958224p. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j., marginalia in ink fair
1950Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
19688vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, and with the signatures of 15 leading members of the company on rear endpaper.
192049p. Hardcover Good condition in worn d.j. fair A play set in 12th century Iceland
1936rif. 053835Washington Dc: Anderson House 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 133 Pp. Gray Cloth Lettered In Maroon. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine Slight Fading To Covers. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50 Near Fine. Autographed By Maxwell Anderson And Dated 1937. Also Signed By Burgess Meredith With Greeting "Best Wishes". Also With An Inscription "Happy Birthday To Eileen From Mary" Dated 1937. Actor Burgess Meredith Made His Credited Film Debut As The Avenging Son Rio Romagna In "Winterset" A 1936 American Crime Film Directed By Alfred Santell; Meredith Had Starred In The Broadway 1935 Play Of The Same Name By Maxwell Anderson In A Loose Dramatization Of The Sacco And Vanzetti Trial And Execution In 1928. The Movie Script Retains Elements Of The Blank Verse Poetic Meter On Which Anderson Based His 1935 Winterset Broadway Theater Production. Anderson House paperback
196147 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1918143p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine lightly faded
2013rif. 54513Universal Pictures Germany GmbH, 2013. Auflage: Standard Version Blu-ray Blu-ray
