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1833réf. 46993Burlington: Edward Smith 1833. First American edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo 293 1 320pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red and green leather labels of spine. Speckled edges. With translator's and author's preface and the author's "Plan of the Work" at front: "The beautiful and justly celebrated work of Bp. Lowth de sacra poesi Hebraeorum is universally known and might seem to preclude the necessity of the present undertaking. A nearer comparison of its contents however will show that the present work is neither a translation nor an imitation of it. Whether the sphere it is at least sufficiently distinct and cannot be without its interest and use to the lovers of the most ancient simple and sublime poetry in general nor indeed to all who cherish a liberal curiosity respecting the progress of knowledge divine and human as connected with the earlier history of our race." Author. "The general purpose of the work required that this part should embrace the general and characteristick traits of Hebrew poetry which mark its essential outlines its cosmology the most ancient conceptions of God of Providence of Angels of the Elohim and of the Cherubim and individual objects and poetical representations of nature." Author. Rosenbach 358 Singerman 0548. Binding with light wear along edges small tears and chips leather spine with some scuffing from removed stickers and small chips at red and green labels. Binding rubbed. Usual library marking bookplates on inside front covers pockets and index cards at rear. Previous owner's name inked to inside front covers. Some underlining at beginning of volume one. Light to medium foxing of blocks throughout. Edward Smith hardcover books
réf. 44373Tokyo: T. Hasegawa n.d. Softcover. g to vg-. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated string-tied wrappers with red and white lettering. Printed on crepe paper in chirimen-bon ã¡ã‚Šã‚ん本 style. French fold double leaves. This work is #22 in the series of English-language translations of traditional Japanese folk tales published by Takejiro Hasegawa in the late 19th and early 20th century and marketed to a western audience. The work is illustrated throughout in boldly-colored Japanese woodblocks. Back cover with floral patterns. The work tells the story of two sons of a recently deceased father. One son eventually forgets to return to the gravesite while the other continues to remember and leave flowers. Eventually he is rewarded with good fortune wealth and his father's protective spirit. Text in English. Wrappers sunned with a few small closed tears and stains. Interior with a few sporadic light water stains throughout. Wrappers in good interior in very good- condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. This edition does not include the publisher's advertisements at the rear which is present in some other editions. Interior front cover with "All Rights Reserved" and Japanese characters at the lower left corner. Edition is unclear and there is no date listed. T. Hasegawa unknown books
1952réf. 53366Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1952. First edition thus. Large quarto 12-1/4" x 9-1/4". xxvi 643 1pp. double column text. Index and glossary. Brown buckram with black spine label lettered in gilt. Title page printed in red & black. Folding map at rear of "The Roman Empire in the Later Fourth Century." Rear inner hinge reinforced with binder's tape. An ex-library book with the usual markings embossed round library stamp and rubber stamp on the title page and a library pocket on rear pastedown otherwise in very good condition. "The Theodosian Code was the first official lawbook of the Roman Empire. It contains the imperial laws during 150 years of crisis A.D. 313 to 468 just eight years before the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the West." from a portion of the d.j. mounted on the front pastedown Contents: Preface -- Introduction / C. Dickerman Williams -- Outline of Roman history / Clyde Pharr -- List of Roman emperors -- Minutes of the Senate -- The constitutionaries -- The Theodosian code -- The Sirmondian constitutions -- Novels of Theodosius II -- Novels of Valentinian III -- Novels of Majorian -- Novels of Marcian -- Novels of Severus -- Novels of Anthemius -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- A map of the later Roman Empire. Princeton University Press unknown books
1972réf. 85257New York: Atheneum 1972. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 67-3191pp. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. Lightly faded topstain with trace shelf-wear else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Stanley Chapman unclipped priced $6.95 tanned with peeling to upper rear corner light folds to flaps and creases and tiny tears to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. First published in France as Le Livre des Fuites 1969 Clēzio's novel focuses on Young Man Hogan and his adventures through danger. 85257. Atheneum unknown books
1967réf. 42683Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1967. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio 19 x 15 1/4": portfolio 12 x 9": booklet. xvii 1 39 1pp Booklet. 49 plates 6 figures loose as issued Portfolio. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover. Booklet housed in its half burgundy cloth over printed paper covered portfolio with string ties. Archaeological survey of the Temple of Beit el-Wali a rock-cut Ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia which was built by Pharaoh Ramesses II and dedicated to the deities of Amun-Re Re-Horakhti Khnum and Anuket. It was the first in a series of temples built by Ramesses II in this region; its name Beit el-Wali means 'House of the Holy Man' and may indicate its previous use as by a Christian hermit at some point in time. The text in the booklet comprises the following: - The architecture and construction of the temple by H. Ricke. - The epigraphic record by G.R. Hughes. - The superimposed cartouches in the entrance hall by E.F. Wente. The plates featured in the portfolio contain numerous photographic reproductions including 5 in full color 6 figures of plans and sections and drawings of murals found in the Temple. Ex-library copy with bookplate on inside of both front covers booklet and portfolio and stamp at verso of title page booklet. Wrappers portfolio interior and plates in very good condition. "In March 1960 the United Arab Republic appealed to the world through the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO to send archeologists to Nubia in order to save the antiquities - discovered or undiscovered - threatened with destruction by submersion under the great new lake to be created by the High Dam under construction on the Nile south of Aswan. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago was one of the first institutions to respond. Before March was ended a team was in Cairo arranging for the use of a boat to make a hasty preliminary survey of the Nile Valley in Egyptian Nubia in order to select sites and plan field operations. A four-year concession was granted from 1960 to 1964. The initial plans for areas to be surveyed excavated changed a few times as documented in the preface and the project eventually recorded materials in several areas from Abu Simbel south into the Sudan." From the Publishers. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1929réf. 52741London: The Soncino Press 1929. Limited facsimile edition. Hardcover. vg-. 1/580. 91pp. Modern vellum boards with decorative gilt design on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge of book block in gilt. This is copy #59 from a limited edition of 580 copies printed on Van Gelder mould-made paper hand numbered on the colophon at the front. This beautiful work produced by British-Jewish historian Cecil Roth contains his English translation of the 16th century illuminated manuscript which he named "The Casale Pilgrim". The manuscript acts as fascinating travel guide for important Jewish historical sites in the Middle East and the Holy Land completed in the year 1598 in Casale Monferrato in Northren Italy. The original illuminated manuscript leaves are here faithfully and vibrantly reproduced in facsimile in their entirety including the original color and the manuscript Hebrew text which accompanies each image. Roth provides English translation and commentary for each leaf on a separate page below the image. The initial pages contain Roth's introductory text which provides historical background and other scholarly information. Binding with bowing to the vellum boards as is the case with many copies. Inteiror with sporadic minor to light foxing to pages mostly to the margins with most images still quite clean. Binding and interior in very good- condition overall. The Soncino Press hardcover books
1972réf. 1410883London: Universal Edition 1972. First English Edition. Hardcover. Quarto xii 183 pages. In Very Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Volume in full black cloth binding with white titling to spine. Jacket is white with black decoration and lettering wrapped in a new protective mylar sleeve. Jacket is missing sections with large open tears and creasing along the top and bottom edges. Faint smudging along edges and on jacket back cover. Boards are bowing slightly with mild shelf wear and light bumping to fore corners. Text block is lightly age toned and faintly foxed along edges. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1410883. Special Collections - Upstairs. Universal Edition hardcover books
1894réf. 2349Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company by the Riverside Press Cambridge Mass 1894. POETRY ILLUSTRATED. 8vo 8 ½" x 6 5/8"; 58 French-fold plates; glazed gray cloth over beveled board gilt and black stamped decoration to front decorated title on spine; gilt top edge; peach eps printed with a floral and fruit design in navy; 26 French-fold glazed plates printed with 52 illustrations in black & white half-tone; light scuff to corners else fine. A beautiful translation of Khayyám's quatrains numbered and presented within Aesthetic-style illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The fifty-two full-page illustrations are followed by twenty-three pages of the quatrains without illustrations and also by notes from Edward Fitzgerald on their meanings. The illustrator Elihu Vedder 1836-1923 was an American who trained in New York City Paris and Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites English and Irish mystics and the Italian Renaissance influenced his work. His mural decoration can be seen in the hallway of the Reading Room in the Library of Congress. WIKI Omar Khayyám 1048-1131 A.D. was a Persian poet and polymath of the Seljuk Empire. He was learned in mathematics philosophy astronomy sciences and religion. Houghton Mifflin and Company, by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass unknown books
1723réf. 21208London: Printed by S. Palmer 1723. First English language edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Large quarto. XXVIII 540pp. Original gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Vignette on title page. Title in red and black lettering. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Originally published in 1696 "Apparatus biblicus" is a development of the author's "Introduction à la Lecture de l'Ecriture Sainte" 1689. In this work he calls in question the historical character of the Book of Tobias and the Book of Judith and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. This work examines also subjects such as the history of the Hebrews and the Holy Land a description of the Tabernacle and Temple a history of the scriptures and a great many tangential matters like the plants animals minerals diseases and customs mentioned in the Bible. Illustrated with thirty striking copper plates including frontispiece with a folding map of the known world. This work is divided into three parts: 1 Of the Origin History and Antiquities of the Jews; 2 Of the Canon; 3 Of the False Gods together with an Explanation of Scriptural Names. Many of the plates are folded and some depict the following views: Map of the World; Noah's Ark; the Tower of Babel; Map of the Holy Land; Plan of the Ancient City of Jerusalem; the Ark of the Covenant; the Temple; the High Priest; the Great Sanhedrim; etc. Head and tail of spine chipped. Rubbing along edges of binding. Front hinge starting but front board still firmly attached. Minor to moderate age-toning/foxing to very first and very last pages. Minor worming and water-staining to upper margin of the last hundred pages not affecting text or plates. Binding in overall fair interior in good plates in very good condition. About the author: Bernard Lamy 1640-1715 was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. Printed by S. Palmer hardcover books
1973réf. 86024New York: Atheneum 1973. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; 67-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.95 showing light wear to spine ends and corners; Near Fine without the usual fading to the spine. The French Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel originally published as La Guerre in 1970. "In War he has a young female heroine Bea B. wander through a maze of peace war and the mess of modern cities. As we read Bea B.'s wonderful wide-eyed internal babble and her scraps of poetry jottings and letters in a diary she carries in her air-travel tote bag Bea B. becomes the perfect foil for the modern apocalypse she stumbles through.as Bea B. wanders through a territory that is presumably Vietnam - and permanent legacy of ten thousand years of war - at the same time she is emotionally walking through France and Europe" Solomon Barbara. "Only the words intact." The New York Times July 15 1973. 86024. Atheneum unknown books
1968réf. 86219Chicago: Quadrangle Books Inc 1968. First English Language Edition. Octavo 21cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in green on spine; light green topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; green endpapers; vi45-1771pp. Light shelf-wear tiny inked mark to lower margin of p.37 and occasional interior soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Bill Hollingshead with photograph by Brian Katz unclipped priced $4.95 with modest shelf-wear and -soil faint cup-ring to rear panel and light rubbing with tiny tears to spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Following Beradt's arrest for supposed Communist support during the wake of the Reichstag Fire Decree she began to research and record over 300 dream accounts from individuals living in Germany from 1933-1939. In October of 1943 New York magazine Free World published a short section of her work as "Dreams Under Dictatorship". see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams and https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism. Arendt began to work with Beradt in 1939 when the two were living within a community of exiles in New York and continued to collaborate on works and translations together. The two first published this present book-length form as Das Dritte Reich des Traums 1966 in Germany. see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams. Historical document examines the levels of impact the Nazi regime had on personal and generational well-being with focus on the lasting changes to individual and group psyche. This English translation includes an afterword by the concentration camp survivor and psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his bookplate to front pastedown. 86219. Quadrangle Books, Inc unknown books
2018réf. 289461Modena Italy: Galleria Mazzoli 2018. Hardcover. 479p. 10x13 inches bilingual texts in English & Italian essays checklist exhibition history selected bibliography index of works illustrated with color plates an b&w photos very good first edition stated #153/500 copies noted at colophon cloth boards and lightly-rubbed unclipped black dj. Gay artist living in the West Village whose work at one time focused on AIDS. Galleria Mazzoli hardcover books
1880réf. 50161London: Allen & Co 1880. New Edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. xiii i 2 202 2pp. 29 1 plates. Bound in dark blue leather with gilt framing on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling and raised bands on spine. Gilt dentelles and textured decorative endpapers. Japanese and English lettering on title page. Illustrated head and endpieces. Elaborate decorative initials. Translation of this Japanese romance by the naval surgeon and Orientals Frederick Victor Dickins. Japan's most famous historical legend recounting the true 18th-century Ako incident of 47 samurai sacrificing their lives to avenge the death of their disgraced feudal lord. With notes and an appendix containing a metrical version of the Ballad of Takasago and a specimen of the original text in the Japanese character. Illustrated with twenty-nine blue and black colored woodblock prints drawn and executed by Japanese artists and printed on Japanese paper containing descriptors in Japanese and captions in English. The plate "The Device of Kudaiu" listed to face page 81 is bound in facing page 112 here with Japanese script only. Binding with light wear along edges small chips and joints of spine with some scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Block lightly age-toned. In 1880 Allen & Co. printed a variant edition with only 24 plates of illustrations. Allen & Co hardcover books
1734réf. 1409656Amsterdam: Janssons à Waesberge 1734. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 14 227 7 pages plus frontispiece and plates iii-xvi xviii-xxii xxiv-xxvi xxviii 24 total. In Very Good minus condition. In plum leather quarter binding with marbled paper boards; spine with gilt fillets ant titling. Mild shelf wear to boards with some rubbing along edges of leather elements and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Text block shows light wear along edges. Lightly age toned and sparsely foxed throughout. Faint stain on front endpaper with some other scattered faint stains throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1409656. Special Collections - Upstairs. Janssons à Waesberge hardcover books
1911réf. 34109Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1911. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; light brown cloth with titling and decorations stamped in white dark yellow and hunter green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x339pp; frontispiece and 14 plates of illustrations. Brief contemporary 1914 pencil inscription to front endpaper spine ends gently nudged with rubbing to white spine lettering else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned with some dustiness to panels a few small chips to upper edge several tears and a few small moisture stains to spine; Very Good. Second volume featuring Lagerlöf's best-known character Nils Holgersson "whose chief delight was to eat and sleep and after that he liked best to make mischief." This together with its predecessor The Wonderful Adventures of Nils would become Lagerlöf's most popular and enduring work. Lagerlöf was the first female author and first Swede to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. Scarce in dustjacket. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
2001réf. 85145Phoenicia N.Y.: Woodstock Editions 2001. First Edition. One of 500 copies signed by Gissinger of which this is no.123. Folio 43.5cm; printed cloth-covered boards with titling in white and black on spine and front cover; marbled endpapers; 67-1946pp; colorful photographs and illustrations throughout. A Fine copy. French text followed by Pevear's translation to English with full-page photographs of Italian sausage. Text explores the photographer and salami with sections including "Boarding School" "Pedigree" "Heroes of Salamis" and "Some Limericks". Oberlé was a French writer and bibliographer who often focused on cookery and wine and Gissinger has published works with chefs. 85145. Woodstock Editions unknown books
1675réf. 1408768Lyon: Antoine Cellier Fils 1675. Revised Corrected and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 18 385 25 with all 46 Part I plates and both Part II plates present plus an engraved title page. In Very Good minus condition. In full leather binding; spine paneled with gilt titling and decoration. Boards are moderately bowed. Cracking to leather on covers along joints and on spine. Chipping and exposed board at fore corners and on head/tail of spine. Text block shows moderate wear and soiling along edges. Lightly age toned and foxed throughout; somewhat darker toning near ends of the book. Engraved title page is loose and laid-in to the front of the book. Faint penciling on title page and on following leaf with some ink lettering in the top margin of page 4. Shelved in Room A. 1408768. Special Collections - Upstairs. Antoine Cellier Fils hardcover books
1686réf. 009165Lyon: Andre Perisse 1686. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf backs ornately gilt marbled end papers ribbon marker in Vol. II only. Volume I with frontis engraved title 24 unnumbered pp. including title page fold out map Near Fine with 1 small fore edge tear 508 pp with 2 fold-out engravings and 1 engraving in text 95 pages with Permission at verso p. 95 dated 19 Dec. 1686. Vol Ii with 617 pages and one engraving in text. Very Good Vol. II lacking marbled end papers at front light rubbing at edges. Overall a quite handsome set interiors clean and lovely. Andre Perisse Hardcover books
1983réf. 25061502Paris: Club du Livre under the direction of Philippe Lebaud with Master Printers Jean Paul Vibert for the text and Jacques Mourlot for the lithographs 1983. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Matton-Pascalini Charles. One of 295 numbered copies folio size 164 pp. signed by Charles Matton-Pascalini with cloth chemise and slipcase all text in French. One of the "Collection Gravure Contemporaine" published by the Club du Livre this highlighting the work of Charles Matton-Pascalini 1931-2008. Matton who also went by Gabriel Pasqualini was an artist in many fields: painting sculpture photography and even film. This work with twenty lithographs by the artist. The Club du Livre's mission in the "Contemporary Engraving" collection sought "to bring together through original engraving and the artists who use it some of the characteristic aspects of contemporary art" n.b. from preface as translated by Google Lens. They continue: "If we like to give prints a decorative role in wall ornamentation it seems ultimately that we experience a more refined pleasure in discovering them between the leaves of a book alongside the words that inspired them." ibid Not only is the artwork visually stunning but the binding in true French style is impeccable. Designed by Dominque Amat and executed in full leather by Paul Figarola the glossy red grey and black leather creating an abstraction that perfectly complements the text. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grained leather with the abstract design of black grey and red inlaid and outlined with gilt title on spine in gilt black cloth endpapers with black leather hinges top edge gilt title page in red and black frontispiece one of twenty bound in throughout each with their tissue guard dramatis personae in red throughout; limited edition of 295 copies on Arches paper this number 215 the number printed not written total edition 380 binding folio size 13" by 10 1/4" pagination: 1-10 11-160 4 signed in pencil by Charles Matton-Pascalini at the colophon. Covered with a chemise of black cloth lined with black felt black leather spine with gilt lettering. Housed in a slipcase covered in black cloth line with black felt the opening with black leather. ___CONDITION: Volume is fine the leather smooth and supple clean and without wear straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The chemise near fine clean with very light wear; the slipcase structually is fine strong and and sturdy with no splits to the seams the cloth covering with some light wear including a small spot worn through. ___POSTAGE: Note that this is an extremely large and heavy volume and additional postage will apply; please inquire for details. International customers please also note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___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. Club du Livre [under the direction of Philippe Lebaud, with Master Printers Jean Paul Vibert for the text and Jacques Mourlot fo unknown books
1939réf. 48108New York: Nikola Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Elephant Folio 15 7/8 x 13". Original light brown half cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards with black-border gray lettering creating the effect of thre-dimensionality. Cover illustration by Attila Gremigni. Photogravure by Oreste Cuppini. With portrait of Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and bust of Mussolini at front. Italian title published in America to impress and stir the interest among Americans for the Fascist program in Italy. De Glauco in his preface suggest that the object of this publication is to make Italy known to the world through pictorial representation assuming that it will make Italians proud while foreigners indoctrinated by anti-Italian propaganda will feel regret in view of his prejudice. The object of this book is to make known some of the accomplishments of the Fascist Regime. The books is profusely illustrated with spectacular b/w photographs and full page photogravures in slightly changing tones. The first chapter depicts W.W.I. as a great victory for Italy and illustrates Mussolini's participation and experience during the war leading into the "red days" with anti-Italians fleeing the advance of the fascists during the March on Rome. A depiction in photogravure of tall fuming smokestacks in light burgundy color is headlined "This is the war which we prefer" - Mussolini. The forceful "blood and soil" propaganda tone is reflected throughout the publication as it is in the second photogravure reproduced in the same color tone "When the soil is fertile the people are happy." - Mussolini opening the extended chapter on Italian agriculture. The following chapters treat motherhood and childhood including subchapters on young Fascists sports in Italy housing and medical issues an extensive chapter on aviation the Italian Navy roads and bridges aqueducts railroads low-cost housing Rome and other major Italian cities as well as provinces including Italian Libya. The final chapter deals with the Italian Empire and its definition: A Will to Power Capable of Surmounting all obstacles with subchapters on Autarchy and the Duce. The final sixty pages contain advertisements and introductions of entrepreneurs. Text in Italian. Binding with some wear along edges some scuffing along edges and light scuffs on cover. Back cover with some soiling and one inch of cloth binding loose at top of spine but present not damaged. Binding rubbed. Front free endpaper with vertical crease but not damaged except for minor chip at top right corner. Endpapers with very light aerial foxing. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Nikola Press hardcover books
1927réf. 85102New York: The Grolier Club 1927. Limited Edition. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto 32cm; quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii2084pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear to spine panel 2" front upper spine fold and creases and tears to extremities; Good. In publisher's slipcase lacking upper board edge with hinge crack to lower board; Good. Troy's Champfleury focuses on French language including the alphabet and grammar with illustrations throughout. 85102. The Grolier Club unknown books
2017réf. 132337Plains PA: Boss Dog Press 2017. paste-paper covered boards paper label on cover and spine slipcase. Boss Dog Press. 9" x 12". paste-paper covered boards paper label on cover and spine slipcase. 68 3 pages. Limited to 96 copies of which this is one of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Bone Folder is the fifth and most ambitious publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collins Der Pressbengel translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen the text is a dialog between a fictional bookbinder and his equally fictional patron with the goal of educating bibliophiles about the processes of hand bookbinding. The dialog is carried out over six days Monday through Saturday with a different subject each day. Monday covers forwarding; Tuesday is decorated papers leather and vellum; Wednesday paper case bindings; Thursday quarter leather bindings; Friday is full leather binding; Saturday describes gold tooling.The original edition was published in 1922 and has been reprinted in other languages; the first English translation was made available in the 2009 Guild of Book Workers Journal and also as a downloadable pdf from Peters Pressbengel Project blog. The text is augmented by a bio-bibliographical study of the history of the Collin family three generations of whom were bookbinders of significance in Germany from the mid-1800s to World War II. In addition the text is complemented by the inclusion of seven photographic images a frontispiece and an enlarged image of Ernst Collins handwritten signature. Boss Dog Press unknown books
1853réf. 1409953Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1853. First American Edition. Hardcover. Folio viii 13-100 pages plus 12 engraved plates. In Good condition. In full brown cloth binding with gilt titling to front cover sympathetically with modern cloth and new endpapers; paper label with black lettering to spine. Boards show moderate wear and soiling with scuffs and stains to covers. Rubbing and chipping to all edges and at fore corners with sections of exposed board. Text block shows Moderate wear soiling and toning along edges. Age toned and heavily foxed throughout with faint smudging. Heavy age toning to plates. Bottom corner of half title page has been torn away with archival repair. Shelved in Room F Oversize. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1409953. Special Collections - Upstairs. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
1935réf. 84758London: Chatto & Windus 1935. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorative element stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 314pp; photographic halftone frontispiece. Light sunning and rubbing to board edges with dampstains to spine ends and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net tanned with shelf-soil foxing chip to upper spine panel effect to title 1" tear to lower rear spine fold tiny chips and tears to extremities and tape mends to verso; Good. First published as Der Karren Traven's novel includes romance and is set in the tropics of Central America. 84758. Chatto & Windus unknown books
2023réf. 38300Barcelona: Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 10 of 50 copies of the English edition of which twenty-two are numbered 1 to 22. There were three deluxe copies marked as A B and C; There were 25 copies numbered 26 to 50 for the Catalan edition. This is a powerful and ever relevant history of the development and evolution of the concept and adoption of the tenets of freedom of the press. "The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant. The texts of Condorcet 1776 and Bonald 1826 allow us to comprehend the debate that occurred in those times. Historian Albert Corbeto provides a background for the facts and contrasts them recounting from a neutral standpoint the historical events that had a substantial impact on French and European society. There are many parallels between the past and present controversies. In today's geopolitically volatile world there is a renewed and disturbing discussion about the nature and limits of various liberties including freedom of the press.The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant." Stanford University Library Albert Corbeto is a professor of Typography and Book History in the Postgraduate degree on Advanced Typography and Typographic creation in Design Degree. He is in charge of publishing and other cultural activities at the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona and also cooperates with the Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona. He has published several articles and monographs on Spanish typography as well as on other aspects of printing and book history. The illustrator Elies Plana is a Barcelona based book artist and printer who has been working in the field for the last 15 years. After studying fine arts at the art school of Olot he joined the workshop of his father Miquel Plana. He learned the craft and the different techniques by helping and assisting his father in the production of over 100 fine books. He not only learned the love for the books but also for the craftsmanship involved in every stage of producing them. In 2008 he started his own projects that vary from editions book prints and special commissions. He works with different techniques from linocuts and woodcut to etching and uses lead and wood types to print the texts Bound with marbled paper boards with brownish orange spine and cover edges. Title in black to spine and with a title lable affixed to the front cover. The book is printed ono Fredigoni paper at Gràfiques Marti. The text has been composed with the font families Linotype Didot and Adob Garamond. Housed in a slipcase covered with the same orange cloth as the book's spine which is in turn housed in a brown cardboard folder with brown fabric ties. It is in fine condition. Measures 8.8 x 13 inches. 160 numbered pages. ARTB/030226. Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona hardcover books
