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1910Best.-Nr. 1410503Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 485 pages. In Good minus condition. In publisher's gray paper wraps with black lettering to covers and spine. Wraps are moderately worn and soiled with rubbing along joints and edges and creasing at corners. Spine is cracked and split with moderate sunning. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with heavier wear on the bottom edge. Interior clean with light penciling in the top margin of the title page. Significant splitting in the gutter of pg. 208-209 through spine; text block is nearly in two. Shelved in Room A. 1410503. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 1410556Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 485 pages. In Very Good minus condition. In black leather quarter binding with brown marbled paper boards; spine is paneled sunned to brown with gilt titling. Rubbing along board edges and at the fore corners. Small scratches and scuffs on covers. Some areas of peeling along the joints. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with some dust soiling to top edge. Interior clean with light penciling on front free endpaper and in the top margin of the title page. Shelved in Room A. 1410556. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 1410503Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 485 pages. In Good minus condition. In publisher's gray paper wraps with black lettering to covers and spine. Wraps are moderately worn and soiled with rubbing along joints and edges and creasing at corners. Spine is cracked and split with moderate sunning. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with heavier wear on the bottom edge. Interior clean with light penciling in the top margin of the title page. Significant splitting in the gutter of pg. 208-209 through spine; text block is nearly in two. Shelved in Room A. 1410503. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover books
1910Best.-Nr. 1410556Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 485 pages. In Very Good minus condition. In black leather quarter binding with brown marbled paper boards; spine is paneled sunned to brown with gilt titling. Rubbing along board edges and at the fore corners. Small scratches and scuffs on covers. Some areas of peeling along the joints. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with some dust soiling to top edge. Interior clean with light penciling on front free endpaper and in the top margin of the title page. Shelved in Room A. 1410556. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1957Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
2011Best.-Nr. 63162London: Folio Society. Fine. 2011. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Still stiff to open in taupe illustrated boards; in similar taupe slipcase with just a hint of sunning.; 102 pages . Folio Society hardcover
1885Best.-Nr. 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
1885Best.-Nr. 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
1967Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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 books
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 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
1973Best.-Nr. 2091202133211039Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo Publishing Association 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 books in total Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo Publishing Association paperback
1977Best.-Nr. 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
1977Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 2111902154611115Shiromizu-sha 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shiromizu-sha paperback
