1930réf. 47870Berlin: Rudolf Mosse 1930. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto 64pp. Original illustrated wraps designed in red cream and black and illustrated light brown belly band protected by modern mylar. Back cover foldout with map of Berlin and advertising on folding flap. Photographic guide to Berlin art treasures celebrities landmarks and recreational destinations. Profusely illustrated throughout with b/w photographs of the Berlin and the castles Charlottenburg Monbijou Bellevue and Sanssouci the Staatstheater Berlin museums the universities churches the Reichstags-building the stock Exchange exhibition grounds sports venues airports and various photo-illustrated advertisements. The idea and entire concept of the Key to Berlin texts photos and captions designed and carried out by Werner-Rades and staff. Photographs for the pamphlet provided by the State Photo-Archiv and A. Vennemann Berlin. Text in German and English. Belly band with light wear and few closed tears. Wraps with light wear along edges small creases and light partial foxing. Belly band and wraps in good interior in very good condition. Rudolf Mosse unknown books
1974réf. 24863New York: American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House Inc 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XII 258pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. First English language edition of this rare work written in French in 1788. It is a fascinating account on the history of the colony of Surinam and of the Surinamese Jewry. Binding and interior in near to fine condition. American Jewish Archives and KTAV Publishing House, Inc hardcover books
2012réf. 85323New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2012. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; gray paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 358pp. Light sunning to lower board margins else Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Eric Fuentecilla unclipped priced $27.00 with small surface scratch to rear panel else Near Fine. Llosa's novel focuses on Roger Casement 1864-1916 an Anglo-Irish diplomat. 85323. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1839réf. 48414Wien: Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch 1839. Later printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. 392 3 8pp. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red label and gilt tooling and ruling on spine. Red edges. Light blue endpapers. Translated into German from Ebn Thybbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic original annotated and with an epilog on the preface by R. I. Fürstenthal. The publication is an edition of Maimonides seminal work on Jewish philosophy "Guide to the Perplexed" written app. 1190 in Arabic using Hebrew letters and first translated into Hebrew in 1204. Originally written in a three-part letter to his student Joseph ben Juda of Ceuta. It was written to enlighten a religious man according to Maimonides to explain obscure figures appearing in the Prophets; and generally addressed to an elect educated readership. Text in German and Hebrew. Binding with wear along edges small chips along edges and red leather label on spine. Marbled boards with light scuffing. Light scuffing at front joint of the spine with light fraying at head. Light foxing of front and back part of block. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. References: Cf. Fürst II p. 305: Krotoschin 1838. Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch hardcover books
1988réf. 49432Moscow: Iskusstvo Art Publishers 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Good to near fine condition. Oblong Folio. Original marine blue cloth with black spine gilt purple design on cover and spine gilt and purple lettering on spine housed in slipcase white lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Design by N. I. Kalinin. "On the 6th of May 1908 with the premiere of "Boris Godunov" the Russian Season started their march over Western Europe. That night Chaliapin Moussorgsky and Golovin triumphed. The unique timbre of Chaliapin's voice his natural and concentrated acting without a trace of stiltedness which one usually finds in the opera stage was full of tragic depth and power." Pozharskaya in her report on the 20 years of Russian Ballet in Paris. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings set designs and costumes including those by Leon Bakst Picasso M. Larionov José-Maria Sert Georges Braques among others. Contains abbreviations and bibliographic references list of operas and ballets annotated list of artists and list of illustrations at rear. Text in Russian and English. Slipcase with some wear along edges small chips and scuffing. Binding and interior in near fine condition. Iskusstvo Art Publishers hardcover books
1965réf. 54238New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Good- to very good condition. Large Folio. 46pp. 1 32 plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in original color-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on white spine. Housed in gray cardboard slipcase. "Painting- he thought- should be for everybody and it should be socialist in tone with which this principle theoretically- fortunately only theoretically- was linked with the deplorable socialistic realism of the Soviets." Enrique Gual. Illustrated with twenty full page b/w reproductions in the Spanish text section and thirty-two full pagecolor plates of Sequeiros' work at rear. Text in Spanish and English. Dustjacket with minor wear. Inside cover with light wavyness due to water exposure else in very good condition. Tudor Publishing Company hardcover books
1924réf. 45866London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt University College; Bernard Quaritch 1924. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Folio 12 1/4 x 10". xxxix 3 70pp Text 43 leaves Plates. Original 3/4 burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Discovered in 1923 about 27 miles south of Asyut halfway between Cairo and Aswan in a red pottery pot the papyrus referred to in this volume is named Q. It is a book in Codex form of which 43 leaves or fragments thereof are extant out of a volume which originally contained 100 numbered pages or 50 leaves besides in all probability one or two unnumbered leaves at beginning and end. The text begins at ch. II. 12 on a page numbered 7 and ends at ch. XX. 20 on page 96. Therefore it is clear that six numbered pages i. e. 3 leaves of text are missing at the beginning. The papyrus is entirely reproduced in 43 halftone plates each facing their transcription. Binding age-toned and partly rubbed with fraying along edges. Gold lettering on spine partly faded. Lower front and back joints bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Previous owner's name dated 1964 to front free endpaper. Very minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall fair to good- interior in good to very good condition. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College; Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
1998réf. 1337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
1948réf. 68860Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie 1948. French-language edition. Paperback. Very Good. 372pp. Quarto 28 cm Gray wraps printed in black and red. With prominent darkening to the spine and large areas of the wraps. Translated for the first time from Greek into French with an introduction and notes by Paul ver Eecke. Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences No. 1. Euclid flourished c. 300 bce Alexandria Egypt was the foremost mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity. Not much is known about his life. He is most known for his treatise on geometry the "Elements." "Euclid understood that building a logical and rigorous geometry and mathematics depends on the foundation—a foundation that Euclid began in Book I with 23 definitions such as 'a point is that which has no part' and 'a line is a length without breadth' five unproved assumptions that Euclid called postulates now known as axioms and five further unproved assumptions that he called common notions. Book I then proves elementary theorems about triangles and parallelograms and ends with the Pythagorean theorem." - Britannica.com. Desclée de Brouwer et Cie paperback books
1921réf. 68951Duluth Minnesota: Workers Socialist Publishing Co 1921. Pamphlet. Very Good . 60 pp. Duodecimo 19 cm; saddle-stapled in printed self-wrappers. Three pages of ads for other Finnish IWW Duluth etc. publications at the rear. Some minor age-toning and edgewear. A nice copy. Rare; in our searches April 2025 we located only three institutional holdings via OCLC and found no other copies offered in the trade. Finnish language edition of Alexandra Kollontay's "The Workers' Opposition in Russia / The Workers' Opposition in the Communist Party" ref: Miles 4280. Printed by the Allied Printing Trades Council of Duluth MN with their union label device printed on the rear wrap. Alexandra Kollontai/Kollontay 1872–1952 was an influential member of the Bolshevik Party that held several positions within the Soviet system throughout her life. Indeed she was amongst a very select few who remained involved in the Soviet halls of power from the earliest revolutionary times through to the latter Stalinist years. Workers Socialist Publishing Co unknown books
1841réf. 1414853Firenze Florence: Sansone Coen 1841. First Italian Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 946 pages. In Very Good minus condition. In green leather quarter binding with gilt titling and decoration to spine and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Boards show moderate shelving wear with scuffing to covers. Rubbing along edges at head and tail and at corners. Scrape along fore edge of front cover. Faint cracking to leather on spine. Small area of chipping at the head. Exposed board at the fore corners. Text block is lightly age toned and moderately foxed along the edges faint dust soiling to the top edge. Faint water damage near the bottom of the gutters on endpapers through p. 3. Shelved in Room F. 1414853. Special Collections - Upstairs. Sansone Coen hardcover books
1787réf. 1410559Paris: Chez Froullé 1787. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxii 23-406 2 pages with 3 fold-out plates. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding; spine with gilt decoration and a leather label with gilt titling. Boards show significant chipping along all edges and at head/tail of spine exposing board and signatures. Splitting to joints and hinges. Major scuffing to covers. Text block is moderately toned and worn along edges. Interior is lightly age toned and sparsely foxed. Bookplate and some light penciling on front pastedown; publication year written in pencil on title page. Small closed tear in the gutter of the first plate. Shelved in Room A. 1410559. Special Collections - Upstairs. Chez Froullé hardcover books
1978réf. 85756Notre Dame Indiana: University of Notre Dame Pres 1978. First English Language Edition. Octavo 23.5cm; green boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 596pp. Light soil to covers with foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Cae Esworthy spine-faded with shelf-soil 0.5" tear to upper rear panel and tiny tears chips and creases to spine panel edges and extremities; Very Good. First published as Forét Interdite 1955 and then as Noaptea de Sânziene 1971 this novel is set in European cities and focuses on a man's romantic obstacles with two women. 85756. University of Notre Dame Pres unknown books
1929réf. 63271Duluth MN: Finnish Daily Publishing Co. by Arrangement with Coward-McCann Inc 1929. First American Edition. Finnish Daily Pub. Co. Issue. Octavo 19.75cm; green cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and yellow on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; vi23-4091pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper board edges else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled with a faint shallow stain along the lower edge of the rear panel; Near Fine. Well-preserved American edition of the first significant novel in the Finnish language originally published in Finland in 1870. This issue bound contemporaneously with but preceded by the Coward-McCann issue with the binding and dustjacket nearly identical with minor variations. Finnish Daily Publishing Co., by Arrangement with Coward-McCann, Inc unknown books
1926réf. 87039Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1926. Limited Edition. One of 1250 numbered sets this being copy no.421. Three octavo volumes 24.25cm; orange paper-covered boards and vertically-ribbed white cloth backstrips with printed title labels mounted to upper spines; xiv5651; 45-584; 45-600pp each volume with a black & white pictorial frontispiece. Light wear to extremities exteriors and upper text edges dust-soiled light though they are internally clean; Very Good lacking the glassing dustjackets and cloth slipcase. Handsome reissue of LaCroix classic text Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde translated here into English by Samuel Putnam. 87039. Pascal Covici, Publisher unknown books
1984réf. 86005London: Verso 1984. First Edition. Softcover issue simultaneously issued in cloth. Octavo 23cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 251pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "Con Corazón / de Rigoberta" undated. Slightly rubbed at joints and wrapper edges; text clean tight and unmarked: a Very Good copy. Originally published in Spanish 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; early printings whether in cloth or wrappers are notably uncommon. 85364. Verso unknown books
1970réf. 56117Paris: André Sauret / Boston Book and Art Publisher 1970. First American edition. Softcover. Very good to near fine condition. Quarto. 299 1pp. Half gray book board over gray flexible paper boards in original three color illustrated dustjacket with black and orange lettering on spine in original mylar jacket and housed in publisher's heavy gray paper slipcase. Design and typography by Claude Verne. "The artist never submits to his material; he makes it the instrument of his will." Parmelin. Laid in a reproduction of a photograph showing one of Gjon Mili's iconic images 10 x 8" of Picasso drawing with a small flash light a figure into the air in a dark room. Mili as a pioneer in stroboscopic and action photography using a slow shutter while Picasso drew an abstract figure into the air. The photos were intended for LIFE Magazine and taken in Picasso's ceramics studio in Vallauris. There are numerous photographs of this event posted in various collections though we have not been able to identify this particular image. A near fine copy of this homage to Picasso depicting 407 reproductions of his lithographs created between 1919 and 1930 presented in color b/w duotone and sepia. Contains two pages on the lithographic process and a complete list of Picasso's lithographs at rear. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges slightly more pronounced at head of spine small closed tears and mylar jacket here with two small closed tears plus 2 1/2 inch tear at bottom foredge of back cover. mylar jacket. André Sauret / Boston Book and Art Publisher unknown books
1996réf. 86492New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company 1996. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; mauve and navy blue paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x2424pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently nudged faint tiny stain to right edge of textblock with lower rear board corner gently tapped though still sharp; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn; Near Fine. The Romanian-German Nobel Prize-winner's centered around four young people living in a totalitarian state in Communist Romania. 86492. Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1944réf. 84244Norfolk CT: New Directions 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.5cm; white paper-covered boards with titling stamped in brown on front cover; dustjacket; 37pp. Tanned with rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.00 with tanning and shelf-soil and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Published as part of The Poets of the Year series and includes Nabokov's translations of works by Alexander Pushkin Michael Lermontov and Neither Tyutchev. 84244. New Directions unknown books
1937réf. AG20013TRANSLATION BY EXAMPLES WITH EXERCISES by Su Zhaolong. 英汉-汉英翻译举例 Shanghai: Published by Shanghai Ching Wen Book Company 1937 second edition. English has been realized to be an important language for the Chinese at that time this book was written mainly for high school students English language workers researchers and advanced English learners to study as a reference book they got the contribution from professors of China. It illustrated technics of translating from both English to Chinese and Chinese to English. 12mo v 165 3 pp. printed wrappers minor loss to the left top corner of front cover and small loss from paper flaw at pp 123/4 spine and back cover partly defective right top corner of front cover creased. 本书于1937年由上海竞文出版社出版，è‹å…†é¾™ç¼–辑，第二版。本书为了æ高英è¯å¦ä¹ 者ã€æ•™å¸ˆç‰äººçš„英è¯æ°´å¹³ï¼Œç”±ä¸å›½å„地的大å¦æ•™æŽˆæŠ•ç¨¿ç¼–辑而æˆã€‚本书共有164页，尺寸13.5×17cm，å°é¢å’Œè£…订处ã€å°åº•å‡æœ‰å°‘许缺失，其他å“相很好。 Shanghai Ching Wen Book Company paperback books
1981réf. 1417643New York: The Members of the Limited Editions Club 1981. Limited Edition #1020/2000. Hardcover. Quarto 319 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good slipcase. Slipcase spine is burnt orange with gilt block lettering. Bound in publisher's off-white linen with copper lettering to spine and embossed titling to front cover. Slipcase shows light shelf wear with rubbing to corners and edges and a few light scratches and marks to covers. Boards show very light overall shelf wear. Textblock is clean. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Numbered and signed by author on rear limitations page. Illustrated with 18 wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Shelved in Room A oversize. Fritz Eichenberg 1901-1990 was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion social justice and nonviolence. This is his Illustration for Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's "The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus" written in 1669 against the background of the Thirty Years War. 1417643. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Members of the Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1963réf. 86794New York and London: Columbia University Press 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xlii34-358pp with black and white frontispiece. Spine ends gently bumped else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn with some rubbing to panels and a few tiny nicks tears and attendant creases; Very Good or better. "Wing-tsit Chan here translates Wang Yang-ming's Ch'uan-hsi lu or Instructions for Practical Living his Inquiry on the "Great Learning" and seven documents which demonstrate Wang's practical application of his doctrines" from front flap. 86794. Columbia University Press unknown books
1980réf. 16020555Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio size 124 pp. inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760 and by 1822 there were plantations in the area with more than fifty thousand coffee plants with massive tracts of rainforest being cleared first from the vicinity of Rio and later Sao Paulo for coffee growing. The families owning the plantations built huge homes some of them almost small castles - one of which the Parque Sao Clemente had ceilings so beautiful that special reclining chairs were installed so that they could be better admired. This book explores those fazendas both inside and out to provide a glimpse into this glittering past. The text of the book is in Portuguese and an accompanying softcover book has the English translation. This volume was previously owned by Claudio Arrau 1903-1991 a Chilean pianist widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan cloth with black paper boards pictorial paste-down of one of the plantation houses inset into the front board with titlte in silver brown lettering on the spine decorative endpapers of stylised palm trees title page in red and black with a small tipped-in photograph tipped-in colour photographs throughout drawn map towards the rear of the book showing the location of the fazendas along the Rio Paraiba do Sul; folio size 13.75" by 10.5" pagination: i-iii 1-2 3-111 112-121 inscribed by Claudio Arrau "Rio de Janeiro 1981" on the first flyleaf. Please note the text is in Portuguese. Accompanying English translation in English a softcover booklet in black paper wraps stapled at the spine with gold lettering and publisher's device on the front cover 19 pp. In a slipcase covered in green paper with stylised palm tree pattern and a pictorial paper label on the front board. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright with the only prior owner markings in both volumes being the name written of Claudio Arrau as noted above and each of the tipped-in photographs is in fine condition; some light stray soil marks on the spine and a small old dampstain on the bottom edge of the spine a few of the final pages have some minor rippling from the old damp else fine. The accompanying English translation is also near fine clean overall with a few shallow creases on the wraps. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall some minor overall edge wear and it appears to have gotten wet at some point as the back is warped and the paper coverings are rippled. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira hardcover books
1977réf. 88810Paris France: Gallimard 1977 1982 1991. Three volumes all softcovers. Three Octavos 22.5cm; white paper wrappers; 535pp; 578pp; 563pp. Text in French. All three volumes from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his embossed pictorial bookplate to half-title page of vol. 3. Vol. 1 has light shelf-wear with soil to wrappers and edges of textblock and bookshop sticker to lower rear wrapper; Good. Vol. 2 and 3 have light shelf-soil; Very Good. Originally published as Das Prinzip Hoffnung 1954 1955 1959 Marxist philosopher explores utopianism in religion art and literature. 88810. Gallimard unknown books
1921réf. 51705Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1921. 1. to 3. Thousand. Hardcover. Good condition. Quarto. 77 3 pp. Three-quarter black library tape over turquois boards with black lettering on cover white on spine protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece portrait photograph. Authorized translation from the Russian. Divided into three chapters A. Efross' first contribution is entitle "Wardrobe of the King" elaborating on Chagall's early time. J. Tugendhol in part two offers a biographical sketch of Chagall. Finally A. Efross on Chagall and the "Nature of Creating" and secondChagall's palette and graphics. First book published on Marc Chagall. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of Chagall's paintings and sketches throughout. Contains list of illustrations at rear with last page containing Kiepenheuer advertisments on contemporary art including Kokoschka Lehmbruck Klee Archipenko and others. Binding with minor wear along edges and lightly sunned along edges. Block lightly age-toned. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag hardcover books
