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1933réf. 25423New York: Liveright Inc. Publishers 1933. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 463pp. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket; unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned with light edgewear overall dustiness and a few short tears. Danish author's novel about a young girl's rise from humble surroundings to the sophisticated upper class after marrying the son of a wealthy ship-owner. Scarce in dustjacket. Liveright, Inc., Publishers unknown
1933réf. 25423New York: Liveright Inc. Publishers 1933. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 463pp. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket; unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned with light edgewear overall dustiness and a few short tears. Danish author's novel about a young girl's rise from humble surroundings to the sophisticated upper class after marrying the son of a wealthy ship-owner. Scarce in dustjacket. Liveright, Inc., Publishers unknown books
1995réf. 85943New York: Pantheon Books 1995. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover with contact card belonging to publicity manager Marian Brown of Pantheon Books stapled to front cover. Octavo 23.5cm; pale green paper wrappers; vi276pp. Lightly spine-tanned with trace soil to front cover and light staple impression mark to first page; Very Good. First published in 1985 this English language proof is a collection of short stories organized by "Fables and Stories 1943-1958" and "Tales and Dialogues: 1968-1984" and includes "The Man Who Shouted Teresa" "Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman" and "The Petrol Pump". 85943. Pantheon Books unknown
1957réf. 432Boston: Beacon Hill Press 1957. First American Edition. New. First Printing. Fine and unread in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. A touch of nicking at the crown with a small splash at the bottom right corner of the rear panel and faint soil to same. Calvino's first novel and the first to be published in the U.S. Told from a child's perspective Calvino paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters. Beacon Hill Press unknown
1988réf. 85942San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book 1988. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover. Octavo 21cm; blue paper wrappers; x12-673pp. Designed by Michael Farmer. Publisher's sticker to front cover. Light sunning and rubbing to wrapper margins else Near Fine. Collection of three short stories this first English translation proof includes "Under the Jaguar Sun" A King Listens" and "The Name the Nose" and its later First Printing includes a publisher's note. 85942. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book unknown
1995réf. 85943New York: Pantheon Books 1995. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover with contact card belonging to publicity manager Marian Brown of Pantheon Books stapled to front cover. Octavo 23.5cm; pale green paper wrappers; vi276pp. Lightly spine-tanned with trace soil to front cover and light staple impression mark to first page; Very Good. First published in 1985 this English language proof is a collection of short stories organized by "Fables and Stories 1943-1958" and "Tales and Dialogues: 1968-1984" and includes "The Man Who Shouted Teresa" "Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman" and "The Petrol Pump". 85943. Pantheon Books unknown books
1988réf. 85942San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book 1988. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover. Octavo 21cm; blue paper wrappers; x12-673pp. Designed by Michael Farmer. Publisher's sticker to front cover. Light sunning and rubbing to wrapper margins else Near Fine. Collection of three short stories this first English translation proof includes "Under the Jaguar Sun" A King Listens" and "The Name the Nose" and its later First Printing includes a publisher's note. 85942. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book unknown books
1885réf. 30824Glasgow: David Bryce & Son 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XXX 333 1 3pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of the third volume of a series of statistical inquiries in various departments of the national economy of Germany conducted by Dr. Conrad Professor of Political Science at Halle. Minor age wear on binding with spine slightly age toned. Previous owner's signature in ink on half-title page and dated 1885. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good condition. David Bryce & Son hardcover
1885réf. 30824Glasgow: David Bryce & Son 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XXX 333 1 3pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of the third volume of a series of statistical inquiries in various departments of the national economy of Germany conducted by Dr. Conrad Professor of Political Science at Halle. Minor age wear on binding with spine slightly age toned. Previous owner's signature in ink on half-title page and dated 1885. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good condition. David Bryce & Son hardcover books
1967réf. 287285Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres 1967. Paperback. Good. 7x4x1. Four paperback volumes sold together. Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres 1967; no later printings indicated; text in French and Greek; bound in red printed paper wraps. A nice working set. Spines are creased sewn bindings remain fully intact; occasional marking in text/margins vast majority of text clean; moderate amount of wear to edges of wraps; toning to edges and spine. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis Minnesota. Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres paperback
1930réf. 88744New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1930. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.25cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; vi23-314pp with color pictorial frontispiece of Xerxes and black & white illustrations and vignettes throughout. Slight forward lean touch of dust-soil to topstain and spine; contemporary owner's ink name and date 1932 to upper front endpaper and on p.3; Very Good and sound. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 edgeworn spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled with several tiny nicks tears and attendant creases and faint foxing on verso; Very Good or better. Fictionalized biography of ancient Persian king Xerxes I by noted Dutch novelist and poet Couperus 1863-1923. Originally published in 1919 under the title Xerxes of de hoogmoed. 88744. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc unknown
1995réf. 32451New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Early Printing. 6.25 x 9in. xxiv. 427pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed by the translator the poet Robert Pinsky boldly on the half-title page. FINE/AS NEW in Fine/As New dust jacket. As pictured. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1988réf. 32557Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio.IX 1 128 4pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first Venetian edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae a “bundle” of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection which existed only in two manuscripts handwritten copies was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham the German physician routinely associated with the Fasciculus was neither the author nor even the original compiler but merely an owner of one of the manuscripts. The topics of the treatises cover a wide spectrum of medieval European medical knowledge and technique including uroscopy astrology bloodletting the treatment of wounds plague anatomical dissection and women’s health. The book is remarkable as the first illustrated medical work to appear in print; notable illustrations include: a urine chart a diagram of the veins for phlebotomy a pregnant woman Wound Man Disease Man and Zodiac Man. Binding and interior in as new condition. The Classics of Medicine Library hardcover
1988réf. 32557Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio.IX 1 128 4pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first Venetian edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae a “bundle” of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection which existed only in two manuscripts handwritten copies was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham the German physician routinely associated with the Fasciculus was neither the author nor even the original compiler but merely an owner of one of the manuscripts. The topics of the treatises cover a wide spectrum of medieval European medical knowledge and technique including uroscopy astrology bloodletting the treatment of wounds plague anatomical dissection and women’s health. The book is remarkable as the first illustrated medical work to appear in print; notable illustrations include: a urine chart a diagram of the veins for phlebotomy a pregnant woman Wound Man Disease Man and Zodiac Man. Binding and interior in as new condition. The Classics of Medicine Library hardcover books
1962réf. 628014Mexico D.F.: Editorial Diana S.A. 1962. viii 259 pp. 20 x 14.5 cm. Dark blue faux leather covered boards with silver titling to spine in a color illustrated dustjacket; 6a. Edicion printed in November of 1962. Very light sunning to spine of jacket with some light rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Very light rubbing to panels with two small nicks to tail of rear panel of jacket. Some rubbing and very light bumping to spine ends of book. Foxing to top edge of text block. Light toning throughout interior mostly around edges of pages. Bookseller's label Libreria Mexico on front free endpaper. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound. De Waal 1974 1745. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Editorial Diana, S.A. Hardcover
1977réf. 87742Paris: Christian Bourgois 1977. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers with French flaps; 67-1093pp; with parallel text in English and French. Inscribed by Duncan on the half-title page to noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024: "For Nathaniel Tarn / in the happenstance of our meeting en haut Centre Pompidou / the two psycho pompodoo / RD." Hint of sunning to spine light wear to extremities with a tiny tear to upper front wrapper and two holograph notes in pencil in Tarn's hand within the text; Very Good or better. A nice association copy - Tarn published Duncan's work during his tenure at Jonathan Cape and has both reviewed and written extensively on Duncan and his writing. 87742. Christian Bourgois unknown
1977réf. 87742Paris: Christian Bourgois 1977. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers with French flaps; 67-1093pp; with parallel text in English and French. Inscribed by Duncan on the half-title page to noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024: "For Nathaniel Tarn / in the happenstance of our meeting en haut Centre Pompidou / the two psycho pompodoo / RD." Hint of sunning to spine light wear to extremities with a tiny tear to upper front wrapper and two holograph notes in pencil in Tarn's hand within the text; Very Good or better. A nice association copy - Tarn published Duncan's work during his tenure at Jonathan Cape and has both reviewed and written extensively on Duncan and his writing. 87742. Christian Bourgois unknown books
1960réf. 28898Paris: Les Editions Roger Dacosta 1960. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10.9x8.0x0.8in. #175 of 2000 copies; light foxing to top edge of text block publisher's mylar cover rubbed with small chip at head of spine. Translation of the first Turkish surgical book. Illustrated with 144 miniatures 18 in color. Text in French. 139pp 1.95lb 10.9x8.0x0.8in Les Editions Roger Dacosta hardcover
1929réf. 000019868New York: Issued Privately for Subscribers c. 1929. first thus limited edition. hardcoveer. Good . King Alexander. With a preface by Pierre Louys. Illustrated by Alexander King. Copyright by Nicholas L. Brown and S J. Wegman. Small quarto approx. 6 1/2" wide by 10" tall. Cream cloth spine over blue-gray boards worn at corners with gilt spine titles faded and gilt desgn on top cover. xx 2 23-264 pages.This edition is limited to 1250 numbered copies 775 of which are for America. This copy is un-numbered instead bearing an inscription on the limitation page to Bruce Grant by the publisher Nick Brown. On the facing page there are two more inscriptions to Bruce Grant one by the 2nd copyright holder Samuel J. Wegman and the other signed "Sam" likely the translator Samuel Putnam. Bruce Grant bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Front hinge starting. A bit of foxing on last four pages. No dust jacket. Bruce Grant was a newspaperman and the author of 50 books. 040414A Issued Privately for Subscribers unknown
1949réf. 57276London: Imago Publishig Company Ltd 1949. Hardcover. Very good. First English Edition. Octavo. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". 133pp. Incl. index. Blue cloth with gilt title in dust jacket. Blue cloth has a hint of edge stain only noticeable if you look hard. Light foxing to a couple pages at end. Dust jacket is darkened on spine and has waterstaining to edges. Imago Publishig Company, Ltd hardcover
réf. 35523Jerusalem: Jerusalem Bible Publishing Co. Ltd. Hardcover. Very good mild page edge toning. Very good dust jacket except a little spine end wear a small spot of soil. Very good card slipcase. Color floral decorated end pages with a matching slipcase. Ribbon marker. A heavy book additional postage may be required. No date circa 1958. This edition is a reduced facsimile of the Jewish Family Bible issued In London in 5645-1884. Hebrew and English in opposing columns. ; 2000 small b&w illustrations.; 1977 pages . Jerusalem Bible Publishing Co. Ltd. hardcover
1882réf. FP6423Paris: Maisonneuve Et Cie Libraires-Editeurs 1882. HB. Half black cloth and brown marbled boards gilt lettering on spine 8vo 144 200 p. Texte Assyrien en Caracteres Hebreux. X-Library with usual flaws no marks in text. Front and rear hinges weak but holding. Covers show edge wear chipping top of spine cloth cracked at joints. Halevy 1827-1917 was a Jewish Orientalist born in Adrianople who became professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Paris and librarian of the Socit Asiatique. Book condition Good. Maisonneuve Et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs hardcover
1966réf. 006435New York : Clarkson N. Potter 1966 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 275 p. illus. some mounted color illustrations facsimiles maps. 33 cm. ; LCCN: 66-22138 ; LC: BX2321.S3; DC20; Dewey: 248.4/6 ; OCLC: 382701 ; beige cloth in photographic dustjacket ; price-clipped ; Contents : Origins of t he cult -- St. James and the reconquest -- Beginnings of the pilgimage -- The grandeur of Compostella -- Some pilgrims and visitors -- Life on the roads -- Consequences of the pilgrimage -- Dounts about the pilgrimage -- Decline and revival -- The history of the relics -- The plates and their descriptions -- Bibliography ; 190 illustrations including 10 color tipped-in plates ; maps on endpapers ; foxing ; VG/VG New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1966 hardcover
1907réf. Bing839jlw043The Macmillan Co 1907. Hardcover. Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes ; Good hardcover First Edition wear to covers and spine minor foxing inside covers tips bumped sm8vo 264 pp. The Macmillan Co hardcover
réf. 88947London: The Twentieth Century Press Limited n.d. Rebound. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on front cover; 177pp. Pencilled note to front pastedown. Spine-faded with modest shelf-wear tanning to interior tiny chip to upper margin of preface and crack to gutter at pp.174-175; Good. Originally published in Germany as Die Internationale; eine denkschrift zur vierzigjährigen gründung der Internationalen arbeiter-assoziation 1904 Jaeckh provides an early examination of attitudes between German Marxists and Mikhail Bakunin. 88947. The Twentieth Century Press, Limited unknown
