1986rif. 32159Kansas City: The Lowell Press 1986. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XLVII 1 226pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover and portrait in gilt on front cover. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Richard L. Sutton. Remarkable edition of Girolamo Mercuriale's "De morbis cutaneis" 1572 considered the first scientific tract on skin diseases. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. The Lowell Press hardcover books

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TOLSTOY, Leo (text); Fritz Eichenberg (illustrations); Leo Wiener (translation); John Bayley (introduction)ABAA

Childhood Boyhood Youth Signed

1972rif. 88028New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited Edition one of 1500 copies of which this is no.310 and signed by the artist Eichenberg on colophon page. Octavo 25.5cm; black cloth spine over pictorial brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; slipcase; xviii23-3793pp; wood engravings to frontispiece and throughout text. Occasional pencilled marginal notes. Light rubbing to cloth spine and board edges with trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. The publisher's tan paper-covered slipcase with paper title label on spine has trivial surface wear; Very Good. Tolstoy's autobiographical novels first published separately as Childhood 1852 Boyhood 1854 and Youth 1856 this edition was published for members of The Limited Edition Club of A. Colish in New York and includes an introduction by Bayley. 88028. The Limited Editions Club unknown books

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Van der Ploeg, JPM; AS van der Woude (ed, translation) J P M A SABAA

Le Targum de Job de la Grotte XI de Qumran avec le collaboration de B. Jongeling

1971rif. 14671Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. vg. 4to. VIII. 131pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dust jacket. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. 1/2" tear to top of dj. Some sunning and staining to dj. Dj in very good book in fine condition. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover books

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Van der Ploeg, JPM; AS van der Woude (ed, translation) J P M A SABAA

Le Targum de Job de la Grotte XI de Qumran. Avec le collaboration de B. Jongeling

1971rif. 53362Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. viii1311pp. Text in French. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. Excerpt of publisher's dust jacket blurb mounted on front pastedown. An ex-library copy with a rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block and a library pocket on rear pastedown. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover books

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YAHYA, Harun [pseud Adnan Oktar] (text); Carl Nino Rossini & Ronald Evans (translation); Timothy Mossman (editor)ABAA

Atlas of Creation: Volume I.

2007rif. 84967Jacksonville FL: Global Publishing 2007. Seventh English Edition. Publisher's typed promotional letter laid in. Quarto 38cm; brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and covers and lenticular ornaments on covers; pictorial endpapers; 1314-80020pp. CD envelope 'Fossils Have Discredited Evolution' with CD to front pastedown. All pages present and complete. Noted zoologist James G. Mead ownership and date inked to front endpaper. Light shelf-wear and soil with very occasional interior wear; Very Good. First in a seven volume atlas focusing on fossil records and invalidity of the Theory of Evolution. Organized geographically Yahya presents illustrations of fossil fuels including cockroaches oysters and sea urchins and discusses their lack of development. Text continues with Darwinism created to encourage conflict rather than based on scientific study. 84967. Global Publishing unknown books

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[Don Diego de Vargas] Espinosa, J Manuel (Translation, Introduction, and Notes)ABAA

First Expedition of Vargas into New Mexico 1692 Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications 1540-1940 Volume X

1940rif. 68139Albuquerque NM: The University of New Mexico Press 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Odd volume. 319pp. Quarto 27 cm Red cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the backstrip and front board. Covers cocked. Front hinge soft. No dust jacket. The reconquest of New Mexico by Spain took place in the last decade of the seventeenth century under the leadership of Don Diego de Vargas. The documents contained in this volume form the first complete published account of the first phase of the reconquest of New Mexico a brief but dramatic chapter in the history of the American frontier. The University of New Mexico Press hardcover books

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[ONEGIN, Eugene] PUSHKIN, Aleksandr; Vladimir Nabokov (translation; commentary)ABAA

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse; I Translator's Introduction Eugene Onegin: The Translation with Volume II Commentary and Index Two Volumes

1990rif. 89267Princeton: Princeton University Press / Bollingen 1990. Revised Edition. Two Trade Issue volumes later printings both softcovers. Two Octavos 20.5cm; blue pictorial paper wrappers. Full pagination available upon request. Bollingen Series LXXII. Both volumes have light shelf-wear and -soil with tiny tears to spine of vol. 1; overall Very Good. Two volume set is an abridgment of the earlier four volume cloth issue. Vol. 1 omits correlative lexicon; vol. 2 combines commentary of cloth issues vol. 2 and 3 and index of cloth issue vol. 4 and omits appendixes and Russian text. 89267. Princeton University Press / Bollingen unknown books

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[WHITMAN, Walt] MENDELSON, Maurice (text); Andrew Bromfield (translation); G Dauman (illustrations)ABAA

Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View Inscribed to Alvah Bessie Hollywood Ten

1976rif. 82388Moscow: Progress Publishers 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; white cloth-covered boards with titling and decorative elements stamped in black navy blue and gilt on spine and front cover; 67-3475pp; black and white photograph halftone frontispiece. Inscribed by Mendelson on half title "For Alvah Bessie / as a most talented American writer and a faithful friend of the late Lars Lawrence with my deepest respect and best wishes / Cordially / M. Mendelson / May 25 1977". Errata slip tipped in. Lacking dustjacket. Lightly nudged spine ends with faint residue to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Concludes with Russian bibliography of Whitman's works and name index section. The inscribed copy of Alvah Bessie one of the Hollywood Ten whose writing focused on Spain and the Soviet Union. Mendelson's works uncommon signed. 82388. Progress Publishers unknown books

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Arderne, John; Millar, Eric [Transcript]; Power, D'Arcy [Translation]ABAA

DE ARTE PHISICALI ET DE CIRURGIA OF MASTER JOHN ARDERNE SURGEON OF NEWARK DATED 1412

1922rif. 1414709New York: William Wood 1922. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 60 pages plus 13 plates. In full yellow cloth binding with gilt titling to front cover. Boards show moderate shelving wear along edges and at corners. Smudging to covers and spine with small stain on the back cover. Sunning to spine. Text block is moderately age toned foxed and worn along edges with dust soiling to top edge. Some worming to the fore edge. Lighter age toning and scattered foxing throughout. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown. Shelved in Room F. 1414709. Special Collections - Upstairs. William Wood hardcover books

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Brenan, Gerald; Translation by Lynda NicholsonABAA

St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry

1976rif. 68482Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976. Reprint. Leather Bound. Very Good. 232pp. Octavo 22 cm Rebound in full light blue leather with marbled endpapers and new flyleaves. Silk ribbon page-marker. In gilt on the spine: "San Juan De La Cruz." Spine sunned; edges of boards negligibly sunned. The biography and examination of the poetry of the preeminent Spanish Roman Catholic mystic and poet. Cambridge University Press unknown books

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FREUCHEN, Peter (novel); Janos Jusztis and Edward Price Ehrich (translation)ABAA

Ivalu the Eskimo Wife

1935rif. 84731New York: Lee Furman Inc 1935. Octavo 19.5cm; gray cloth-covered boards with tiling and decorations stamped in silver and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; 332pp. Lacking dustjacket. Spine lightly convexed and tanned with rubbing to titling shelf-soil and pencilled notes to rear pastedown; Very Good. Author includes experiences with Arctic exploration with this novel focusing on a young girl who meets an explorer. 84731. Lee Furman, Inc unknown books

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Freud, Sigmund; James Strachey, translation, Oliver Sacks, former ownerABAA

Collection of Oliver Sacks Psychoanalysis_Freud 4 volumes

rif. 12199Original Wraps. Very Good. Original Wraps. From the Library of Oliver Sacks. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Books include: The Future of an Illusion 1960. An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1969. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1962 On Creativity and the Unconsciousness Harper Touchstone 1958. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections a shipping surcharge may be calculated upon packing. Any shipping cost increase will be submitted for approval before the order is processed.". Various states of wear moderately shelfworn chipped and toned with elements of dampstaining. Mostly 8vo. Illus. b/w wrappers. unknown books

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Freud, Sigmund; Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff [Introduction, Essays]; Brill, A A [Translation]ABAA

THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS; THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION

2010rif. 1406153Norwalk New York: Easton Press Sterling 2010. Easton Press Edition First Thus First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto xix 557 pages profusely illustrated. In Very Good plus condition. Bound in dark blue genuine leather with gilt decoration and titling; spine paneled with gilt titling; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Very light shelf wear to boards with some mild rubbing along the bottom board edges. Text block edges show light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. 1406153. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press [Sterling] hardcover books

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GINSBURG, Saul Moiseyevich (text); PROMBAUM, Ephraim H (translation)ABAA

The Drama of Slavuta Inscribed

1991rif. 45005Lanham MD: University Press of America 1991. First Printing of this edition. Octavo 22.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi1546pp. Family association copy inscribed by the translator to his sister on the front endpaper: "2/25/92 / To my beloved sister Sophie - on her birthday - with gratitude for the abiding presence of her translators genius which has been a constant source of inspiration / Love / Ephraim." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear along the flap folds. Important English-language translation of Ginsburg's work on the history of Russian Jewry under Tsar Nicholas I based on archival and other primary sources gathered in St. Petersburg at the turn of the century. University Press of America unknown books

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HaNAGID, Shmuel; Peter Cole (translation)ABAA

Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid Inscribed

1996rif. 89215Princeton: Princeton University Press 1996. First Edition. First Printing softcover. Octavo 23cm; blue pictorial paper wrappers; 236pp. Inscribed by translator on half-title page: "For Nathaniel with admiration - from Pete". From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his very occasional pencilled markings. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse translated from Hebrew includes "On Fleeing His City" "He Whose Heart in His Heart" "Your Loved Ones Depress You" and "You Mock Me Now in Your Youth". 89215. Princeton University Press unknown books

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Howard Crane [translation and annotations]ABAA

The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Huseyin Al-Ayvansarayi's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture Volume VIII

2000rif. 46769Boston: Brill 2000. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston: Brill 2000. First Thus. Quarto; illustrated dust jacket; red cloth boards stamped in gilt; 625pp. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine. Brill unknown books

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti100,00 USD≈ 89,34 €

JACCOTTET, Philipe (story); TREHARNE, Mark (translation)ABAA

Cherry Tree Le Cerisier - Deluxe Issue Signed

1991rif. 89771Birmingham: The Delos Press 1991. First English Language Edition. Deluxe Issue one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator this being copy no.16. Quarto 27cm; marbled paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine and inset on upper front cover; publisher's original cloth slipcase; ii67-144pp. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some faint spotting to upper edge and extremities. Handsome fine press edition of this short story originally published in France by Marchant Ducel in 1986. 89771. The Delos Press unknown books

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KAROL, KS (text); MCARDIE, Eamonn (translation) K SABAA

Between Two Worlds: The Life of a Young Pole in Russia 1939-46 Review Copy Inscribed

1987rif. 90319New York: New Republic / Henry Holt and Company 1987. First American Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid in. Octavo 23.5cm; light grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in silver on spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; viii3111pp. Inscribed by the author at upper half-title page: "For Esther and Izzy my oldest and dearest American friends / with love / Karol / 24.II.87." Toward the lower half-title the author has written addresses and phone numbers for Paris and Rome residences. Gentle sunning to upper and lower board edges tiny stain to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $19.95 with light surface wear; Near Fine. A memoir by a Polish student who joined the Red Army in 1941. "This is World War II as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain a saga of passion vodka and melancholy. It is the story of a young Pole coming of age amid the intoxicating seductions of ideology and his sobering encounters with love and war" from front flap. 90319. New Republic / Henry Holt and Company unknown books

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LIND, Jakov (plays); MANHEIM, Ralph (translation)ABAA

The Silver Foxes Are Dead and Other Plays

1969rif. 90214New York: Hill & Wang 1969. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 910-951pp. Small ink price rubber-stamped on front endpaper mild external wear else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.95 with mild surface wear light wear to extremities and a thin horizontal strip of offsetting along the lower edge; Very Good or better. Collection of four plays originally written for radio by the noted Austrian-British author. 90214. Hill & Wang unknown books

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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, translation by, and F Lancelott, music byABAA

Sheet music: Beware!

1880rif. 606864London: Davidson 1880. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Translated from the German by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album edgewear possibly trimmed along the top to fit into an album as the text is partially cutoff a small tear to the bottom of the back cover not affecting the music and toning still very good. For voice and piano. A few composers have put these words to music but OCLC locates only three holdings of this composition by F. Lancelott and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. Davidson unknown books

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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (text); Hill Thompson (translation); Irwin Edman (preface)ABAA

The Prince

1954rif. 84775New York: The Heritage Press 1954. Octavo 24cm; brown leather boards with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and covers; fore-edge untrimmed; glassine dustjacket; 185pp. Shallow crack to rear hinge with deeper 1" cracks to hinge ends with shelf-soil pencilled note to front endpaper inked list to rear endpaper and tiny marginal mark to p.87; Good. Glassine dustwrapper has 1" chip to upper spine panel 0.5" horizontal chip to spine panel with tiny chips and creases to extremities; Good. In supplied slipcase tanned with shelf-soil and tiny cracks and rubbing; Good. Italian dipolmat Machiavelli describes political philosophy and practices for new princes with references to events throughout. 84775. The Heritage Press unknown books

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MENCHU, Rigoberta (text); Ann Wright (translation); Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (editor; introduction)ABAA

I Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Inscribed

1998rif. 85364London and New York: Verso 1998. 1990s reprint softcover. Octavo 23cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 251pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "Le Deseo Mucha Salud Rigoberta". Bookshop sticker to rear wrapper else a Fine copy. First published as Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchú Y Asi Me Nació La Conciencia 1983. Menchú's landmark autobiography written with Elisabeth Burgos-Debray describes in detail the atrocities committed against indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War. Menchú was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Ann Wright's English translation has never been out of print and the book is now considered a canonical work of Native American writing. 85364. Verso unknown books

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NOVALIS (text); Armel Guerne (translation)ABAA

Oeuvres Completes: I Romans-Poésies Essais with II Les Fragments Two Volume set

2015rif. 87798Paris: Gallimard 2015. Reissue first published by Gallimard in 1975 Two Volume set softcovers. Two Octavo volumes 22cm; white paper wrappers; ii78-3935pp; ii910-4582pp. Text in French. Both volumes have light surface wear and trace shelf-soil; Very Good. Two volume collection includes Novalis's verse essays and fragments as translated by Guerne. 87798. Gallimard unknown books

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose; Nostrand, Howard Lee [Translation]ABAA

Mission of the University

1944rif. 140939464Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1944. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. vi 103 pp. Original cloth. Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear a little toning to spine panelfaint pencil to front panel. Uncommon in jacket. Princeton University Press unknown books

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti100,00 USD≈ 89,34 €

RILKE, Rainer Maria; Leslie Phillips and Stefan Schimanski (translation)ABAA

The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

1948rif. 84879London: Lindsay Drummond 1948. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies of which this is no.473 in corresponding slipcase. Octavo 20cm; white cloth spine and corners over illustrated black paper-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; original acteate dustjacket; 81pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned with trace shelf-soil; Very Good. In original acetate dustwrapper with 0.5" diagonal tear to lower rear panel; Very Good. In publisher's stapled numbered slipcase with '473' on rear panel titling in green on spine and split along upper edge and slight lean; Good. First published as Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke 1912 Rilke's long poem explores adventures by Christopher Rilke. 84879. Lindsay Drummond unknown books