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Best.-Nr. 6628New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii45-3271pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand in English and Japanese dated about a month after publication. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock with a hint of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $21.00. Murakami's third English-language publication and his first collection of short fiction gathering 17 stories including "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women" "Sleep" "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" and "TV People." Murakami has always been a reluctant signer who does very few publicity events; contemporary signatures in early titles are uncommon. Rubin 16. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 3117332New York: Outerbridge & Lazard. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0876900805 . First American edition. INSCRIBED & dated in 1973 by Marcel Ophuls on the half-title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 194pp. 5 3/4" X 8 1/4" 1/2"-inch tear at base of front cover of jacket. Very tiny chip at upper edge of front cover. Some underlining in Stanley Hoffman's introduction. A most uncommon signature in books. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"; 194 pages . Outerbridge & Lazard hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 3116633BOSTON: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket. Small chips at spine ends on jacket. Traces of mild shelf-soiling at spine on jacket. Tiny nick at edge of front end-paper. The film adaptation in 1930 was awarded the Best Picture Oscar. Attractive copy with the Paul Wenck designed dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages . Little, Brown and Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 16-6401Paris: de l'imprimerie de Didot jeune an X - 1801-1802. 8vo 13 x 20.5cm 8.25x5.75in; Volumes I to V - 341 384 381 368 and 438 pp. respectively Atlas Volume VI . with 17 plate views 1 plate Carte des Iles Hergest 8 fold out Coastal Charts;.Very good.Uniformly bound in 19th Century qtr. light brown calf and cloth gilt lettering in ruled green label on spine top edge gilt tan and blue-green marbled end papers fore and bottom edges untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to all volumes corners bumped and some rubbed through minor rubbing to joints and top and bottom of spines some soiling and age toning and spots to all untrimmed edges occasional spots and toning of text plates and charts. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:16326858; Howgego I V13 Howes V23 Lada-Mocarski 55 London Tourville 4640 Smith 10466 CS. .George Vancouver 1757-1798 was a British Naval officer and hydrographer and explorer of the Pacific and the North American west coast. He began his Royal Navy career at 14 when he signed on the 'Resolution' as a midshipman with James Cook's Second voyage to the South Pacific and Antarctic Ocean from 1772 to 1775. On that voyage he learned to be a seaman and an officer with summers in the Antarctic Ocean to discover land and winters exploring the South Pacific Islands. He also signed on for Cook's Third Voyage 1776-1779 to the west coast of North America to discover the outlet of a Northwest passage and establish British claims on the land. During a Hawaiian stop for provisions he led one of the boats to rescue Cook's body from an attack by the natives for an unknown provocation. Over the next 12 years Vancouver was promoted to command and gained experience in surveying charting and commerce.The "Voyages." is an important book describing the expedition that was assigned to create better charts of the Hawaiian Islands and the North American west coast along with enforcing the 1790 Nootka Sound Convention and reestablishing British claims to the fur trading commerce. Vancouver was selected to command the new 'Discovery' and William Broughton to command the 'Chatham'. The 1791-1795 surveying and reconnaissance voyage of the 'Discovery' was important in the more detailed charts of the coast than Cook generated. In examining the Strait of Juan de Fuca Vancouver discovered the future named Vancouver Island. During that survey he encounter other Spanish ships surveying the inlet and strait Strait of Georgia . Vancouver continued on to Nootka Sound to meet with Bodega y Quadra and negotiate the terms of the British claims to the Sound. Vancouver originally name the Island Quadra-Vancouver Island. Over the years under British control Quadra was dropped from the name. Vancouver's surveys negotiations of British claims and his involvement in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands under Kamehameha were influential in shaping the Islands and the Northwest Coast of North America.The fold out charts No. 1 to 7 are all titled Coate Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Reconnue par le Cape. Vancouver and range in similar size of 10.75 x 8.85 inches to neatlines. Chart No. 8 is titled Carte de la Partie de la Cote Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Reconnue pendant les Etes de 1792 1793 et 1794. showing the west coast of North America from 30 to 62 North by 115 to 155 West Greenwich Wagner NW 853-860 English printing and different scale. Paris: de l'imprimerie de Didot jeune,, an X [- 1801-1802] hardcover
1753Best.-Nr. 15244R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1753. Hardcover. Good bound in full leather with gilt accents on covers and gilt titles at spine. Some cracking bumping and scuffing to leather. Paper loss to corner of first few pages of Volume 4 not affecting text of frontispiece. Toning to end papers bookplate of 19th Century novelist Edward Heneage Dering inside front panel of each volume and name inside front panel of each volume. Bindings are intact covers all attached. Frontispiece to each volume fold-out map in Volume 2 present and intact. Rare mid-1700's set with parallel text in English and Latin. Includes the Aeneid Georgics Eclogues and supplemental commentary/essays. 8vo. R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall hardcover
1965Best.-Nr. 002863Paris: Aux depens d'un amateur 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Illustrators. Loose sheets in lithographed wrappers. In grey cloth clamshell box with white lettering. Illustrated with 22 original lithographs in color including wrappers by Leonor Fini. Text in French translated by Andre du Bouchet. Printed on Grand Velin de Rives with BFK watermark. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of the lithographs on Grand Velin de Rives. This is number 83 of a limited edition of 200 copies hand signed by Leonor Fini and Andre du Bouchet on the limitation page. All lithographs protected by tissue guards. The clamshell box is in very good condition with a few vague stains The contents are in mint condition. Sheets measure 40 x 30 cm. . Aux depens d'un amateur paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 001583Luzern/Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag Luzern 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition of 1480 copies this copy No.254. Two Volumes housed in perspex box. Volume 1 - Commentary volume with pp181 with text in German and English Along with the original Latin bound with brown leather spine over blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in near fine condition with a few small marks to boards inside in fine condition. Volume 2 - The facsimile volume with pp43 of beautifully produced facsimiles of the original text and the 104 miniatures of the animals real and mythical highlighted in gilt reproduced from the original held in the Parker Library College of Corpus Christi Cambridge. Bound in decoratively embossed full brown leather with motives of the griffon the lion and the dragon with 4 raised bands to spine in fine condition inside fine. Perspex box itself in good condition with a 2 cracks to side panels. The Peterborough Bestiary represents quite an influential example of the much beloved era of 12th century animal-themed manuscripts. Countless small picture fields illustrate the descriptive and interpretive text. An excellent copy of this beautifully produced two volume set. Scarce. Faksimile Verlag Luzern hardcover
Best.-Nr. 11635Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 40 4 pp. pop-up. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Van Vliet Holden Miller-Brown. Bound by Audrey Holden in pulp-painted covers by Van Vliet and Katie MacGregor. who also created the pulp painting background for the centerpiece pop-up. Text is printed in Victor Hammer's American Uncial with wraparound commentary in Monotype Plantin by Andrew Miller-Brown. All housed in a paste-paper over boards clamshell with birch sides; boldly titled on the spine. A fine copy. A remarkable rendering of the 2nd century Gnostic Gospel. Van Vliet's edition is a wonderful marriage of early and modern printing: the design echoing early printing islands of text within a sea of commentary. Similarly the choice of American Uncial a typeface modeled by Hammer after early letterforms from a century near to the time of this gospel's composition recalls early books. But this is a remarkably modern printing with modern abstracted embellishments where we would expect to find illuminated illustration in an early manuscript. Every page of the scholarly edition is visually engaging-a rare marriage indeed! As if this exceptional design was not enough "the reader" in the words of John A. Buchtel "reaches the center of the book and unexpectedly the pop-up explodes out of the mottled purple and blue pulp painted page spread in the vivid multiple colors of Katie MacGregor's handmade papers. Its abstract design echoes the diagrams elsewhere in the book and its sense of rising expansiveness is reinforced by the radiating silver paper strips woven through the surface of the pulp painting. . . . The pop-up is emblematic perhaps of a sudden realization-an epiphany-as the soul moves 'upward from its bondage to the flesh and the lower world to its liberation in the higher celestial realm.'" p. 48. A stunning work. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown
1960Best.-Nr. INDIANIN016463Longmans Green and Co New York. 1960. First U.S. edition. Preface by Humayun Kabir. Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Louis Fischer. Octavo. pp xxvi 293. Photographs and a map. In his Preface Humayun Kabir outlines how he persuaded Azad ''one of the principal actors in the transfer of power from British to Indian hands'' to agree to the composition and publication of this book. At the time Azad was in ill health and died before completion. The text originally in Urdu is largely the work of Kabir constructed from conversations with Azad and overseen by the latter. The translation into English is also Kabir's.Presentation copy from Humayun Kabir inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''The Right Honourable Earl Attlee with kind regards from Humayun Kabir - 12th March 1961''. The recipient was of course the British Prime Minister at the time when India gained Independence and features several times in the narrative. When Attlee won the 1945 election he received a congratulatory telegram from Azad of which Nehru and Gandhi disapproved as they ''were both skeptical about the Labour attitude to India''.Spine a bit faded. Covers slightly marked. Very good. No dustwrapper it is known that Attlee removed them from all his books. An important association copy. Longmans, Green and Co, New York. unknown
1667Best.-Nr. 117968Paris : Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez au Livre de la Semaine Sainte 1667. MAROLLES M. de traduction de. - CIGONGNE Daniel de.L’office de la semaine sainte selon le messel & Breviaire Romain. Avec la Concordance du Messel & Breviaire de Paris. De la Traduction de M. de Marolles Abbé de Villeloin. Ensemble l’explication des sacrez Mysteres representez par les Ceremonies de cét Office. Par Fr. Daniel de Cigongne’ de l’Ordre de Saint François. Paris Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez au Livre de la Semaine Sainte1667 190x130mm 1 planche n/b gravée - page de titre - 7 ff. Epistre Au tres-pieux et devot lecteur - Extrait du Privilege du Roy - 1 planche n/b gravée 752 pages contenant 7 planches n/b gravées total 9 planches bandeaux lettrines culs-de-lampe reliure plein maroquin bordeau glacé porphyre aux chiffres et aux armes de Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche femme de Louis XIV. Dos à cinq nerfs. Toutes tranches dorées. Dentelles intérieures. Garde papier marbré. Charnières coiffes et coins usés. Bas des coins depuis le début jusqu’à la page 33 tachés. Petite déchirure sur le bas du coin de la page de titre sans atteinte au texte. For shipments to the U.S.A. with a value exceeding 800 USD VAT is not included. Please contact us via our website if needed. Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez au Livre de la Semaine Sainte unknown
1982Best.-Nr. 048220Sydney: The Beagle Press 1982. HEAVY. 59pp 14 lithographs. Or full pale green leather in dark green cloth slipcase. As new. Edition of 100 copies of which this #8 numbered and SIGNED by Donald Friend on the colophon. The lithographs were hand-printed by Fred Genis. All poems are by anonymous people except Confessio which is by a poet known as the Archpoet about whom little is known except that he died in c1165. A beautiful example of the printer's art. Signed by Artist. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Illus. by Friend Donald. Elephant Folio. The Beagle Press Hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 3115868New York: Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. First American edition. 2-volumes. Fine in near fine dust jackets in very good pictorial matching card slipcase. Apart from the orange hue of titles on spines of jackets having faded white and an exceedingly tiny pin hole in one jacket the set is virtually untouched or ever read. The grey top stain is un-faded as well. The slipcase has a chip at upper left-hand corner of pictorial label along with traces of shelf-wear while remaining perfectly serviceable. One of the masterpieces of literature in the Twentieth Century. Favorably compared to Joyce. The definitive novel of life between the wars in Weimar. Adapted as a film three times. You could wait a long time before finding a better copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Viking Press hardcover
1942Best.-Nr. 45573New York/Port Jervis: The Furrow Press 1942. First edition. Softcover. fair to near fine. This scarce collection includes: "Song Book of the Cejwin Camps/The Camper's Song Pack". 1937. New York. The Furrow Press. Softcover publication. xii 91pp. 5. Green cloth tape over turqoise-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Printed in a two-column format the publication includes hundreds of songs both secular and Jewish songs with p.51-91 including Hebrew text as well as transliteration. Includes a table of contents at the front and an index at the back. WITH A collection of 45 pieces of ephemera mostly mimeographed: -12 programs for Music Theater Dance and/or marionette performances at the camp 1936-1942 - Seventh Maccabiad Program with song sheet 1940 - V-Day Event Program with song sheet 1942 - "Road to Democracy" event program 1939 - "Hadas News" 1938 vol. 2 #4-5 1939 Vol.3 #7 1940 vol.1 #2-4 plus one undated issue 7 issues - "Marching Song" Song sheet 1938 - 4 individual song sheet 1938-1942 - Undated single sheet - "Esther Echoes" newsletter 3 issues Aug 1941 and Aug 4th 1941 x2 copies - 2 scripts for camp productionsincluding 2 copies of 1 production 1940 - 11 packets or single pages of readings prayers and songs for Sabbath and weekdays services 1941-1942 Some items with some minor to significant chipping to extremities and/or creasing and minor close tears. Song book with some minor rubbing to extremities and creasing to covers. Some chipping to the top right corner of the back cover and a small closed tear on the side. Ink stamp on the back cover. Interior with some closed tears and light creasing to the corners of a few pages. Name of the previous owner in pencil on the initial title page. Book block fairly tight overall. Book in very good- ephemera collection in fair to near fine condition overall. There are no OCLC holdings of this Camp Cejwin version of the "The Camper's Song Pack" publication which includes the 12 preliminary pages of Cejwin material. First opened in 1919 the Cejwin Camps which stood for "Central Jewish Institute" were started by Jewish educators Albert and Bertha Schoolman to "integrate Judaism with the American way of life" - according to the Jewish Theological Seminary. The camps promoted Zionism Judaism and American outdoor and camping culture to the underprivileged children of New York's Jewish community. The organization was ultimately composed of seven camps serving more than 1000 campers. The camps ultimately closed in 1992 but are seem as instrumental and influential in the development of the now successful "Camp Ramah" network of camps. It is considered the first Jewish Summer Camp. The Furrow Press unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 4347London: Chatto & Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. The author's first novel originally written in English in 1923-24 translated by Traven into German and published as Das Totenschiff by Büchergilde Gutenberg in 1926. It charts the story of an American sailor "stateless and peniless because he has lost his passport who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction" from the AK Press edition. Treverton 31. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; russet cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brick red topstain; dustjacket; viii312pp. Hint of sunning to spine else a fresh Fine copy with topstain unfaded and the gilt titling bright and unrubbed. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net showing some modest rubbing light dust-soil with some wear to spine ends and upper front panel a faint vertical fold to front panel and a series of tiny tears discreetly mended with Japanese tissue on verso; faint 25p. price erased from front flap; Very Good or better this example without the usual heavy toning to the spine panel. Chatto & Windus unknown
1893Best.-Nr. 002399The Harvard Publishing Company 1893 The Harvard Publishing Company New York 1893. First edition. This edition is specially printed and limited to 320 issues This is no. 71 signed by the printer 'John Wilson & Son' on the limitation page. Hardcover. Illustrations By Cruikshank And LaLauze Illustrators. Eight volume set complete. Quarter brown leather gilt over marble paper covered boards deckled edges as issued. Condition: Very good; some wear with minor losses at spine crowns and board corner tips hinges tight gilt brilliant brown leather spines sunned boards clean hinges tight text pages light age-toned vol. 1 - Some pages at heel area - damp stained slight puckering - minor tears at base otherwise fine. Hardcover. Very Good. The Harvard Publishing Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 5662Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1977. First Edition of this translation. One of 500 copies. Quarto 25.75cm; original quarter blue crushed morocco and paste paper boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-655pp. Inscribed by Fowles to Czech-born British filmmaker Karel Reisz 1926-2002 on half-title page: "Dear Karel I thought this little source for the FLW might amuse you - and it comes with all my thanks for your patience past and present over the filming. I know it could not be in better or more understanding hands. John / Lyme 14 June 1980." Gentle sunning to spine pinpoint wear to corners; very Near Fine. Handsome edition of Fowles's translation of Claire de Durfort's 1824 novel. In his introduction Fowles explains how the acquisition and reading of a badly foxed copy in a London bookshop inspired his third novel The French Lieutenant's Woman 1969. The novel was adapted for film by playwright Harold Pinter directed by Karel Reisz and released to great fanfare including five Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award for Meryl Streep. A lengthy significant inscription and uncommon thus. W. Thomas Taylor unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 023233London: Rapp & Whiting 1968 First printing of the first British Bilingual English/Spanish edition. Signed by Robert Bly directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. A beautiful copy. Rapp & Whiting hardcover
1990Best.-Nr. 32366Osaka Japan: International Garden & Greenery Exposition. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 188 pages; text in Japanese with some English translations. 189 works catalogued and pictured. Among the painters represented: Richet Pelouse Damoye Coignet and many others. Several of the photographers whose works are included are: Kunie Sugiura Adolphe Braun Oliver Wasow & others. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Abeetal; Abe Yoshio; Anderson Stanley translation; International Garden & Greenery Exposition Osaka Japan; et al From Barbizon School to Contemporary Photographers - International Garden & Greenery Exposition Osaka Japan - April 1 - September 30 1990 . 1990. International Garden & Greenery Exposition paperback
1990Best.-Nr. 50723Cambridge England: Islamic Texts Society. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 132 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . 1990. 0946621144 . Islamic Texts Society paperback
1976Best.-Nr. 57407Penguin. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 176 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1976. 0140442685 . Penguin paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 53915The Swedish Institute. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - appears unread - Text in English. 286 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . 1989. 915200239X . The Swedish Institute paperback
1975Best.-Nr. 53614Moscow Russia: Progress Publishers. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Tight to spine - 389 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . 1975. Progress Publishers hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. 16646New York: Liveright. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer--; 016646 . 1943. Liveright hardcover
1974Best.-Nr. 76302Cornell University Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 176 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; "Because of the importance of Averroes as a Muslim he is significant for both Platonic and Islamic thought it is good to have Lerner's new and thoughtful interpretation with lucid introduction three helpful appendixes glossary and index."--Library Journal "This is a fine translation of a very difficult and important text lost in its Arabic original but preserved in the awkward fourteenth-century Hebrew translation of Judah ben Samuel. Even in this summary form the Republic is one of the exceedingly few works of the Platonic corpus to surface in Islamic philosophy and this paraphrase is an excellent example of Averroes' technique of doing philosophy in commentary form."--Journal of Near Eastern Studies "It is interesting to note that Plato's tenets were considered profitable also by Averroes whose world was defined and governed by the Koran."--The Classical Outlook An indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of Averroes' discussion of the Republic. Averroes' book played a major role in both the transmission and the adaptation of the Platonic tradition in the West. In a closely argued critical introduction Ralph Lerner addresses several of the most important problems raised by the work. . 1974. 0801408210 . Cornell University Press hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 32454Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in English; 16 illustrations most in color. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Batenier; Babina Natalia; Translation By Ruslan Smirnov David Teniers the Younger Masters of World Painting . 1989. 5730001339 . Aurora Art Publishers paperback
