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1971réf. 65954Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh 1971. First Edition. Octavo; red cloth; dustjacket. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper not price-clipped minutely rubbed at extremities; Fine. Adonis has long been on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize which only one Arabic writer novelist Naguib Mahfouz has won. Uncommon cloth issue of the Syrian-born poet's first book published in the U.S. The University of Pittsburgh unknown books
1955réf. 62843New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vi23-3433pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Light wear to extremities some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $4.00 gently spine-sunned with modest external wear and a few tiny nicks tears and attendant creases; Very Good. With the business card of Asa B. Elliott V.P. at G.P. Putnam's Sons laid in. A novel set during the Old Testament presaging the arrival of the Messiah. Uncommon signed. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1929réf. 63271Duluth MN: Finnish Daily Publishing Co. by Arrangement with Coward-McCann Inc 1929. First American Edition. Finnish Daily Pub. Co. Issue. Octavo 19.75cm; green cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and yellow on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; vi23-4091pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper board edges else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled with a faint shallow stain along the lower edge of the rear panel; Near Fine. Well-preserved American edition of the first significant novel in the Finnish language originally published in Finland in 1870. This issue bound contemporaneously with but preceded by the Coward-McCann issue with the binding and dustjacket nearly identical with minor variations. Finnish Daily Publishing Co., by Arrangement with Coward-McCann, Inc unknown books
1895réf. 49766Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd 1895. Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets numbered and specially bound this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes 23.75cm; full black crushed morocco spines in six compartments with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv2255; xiii226-4335; x2384; x239-4475; xii2384; xii2394624; xii2264; xiv227-4764pp with frontispieces and 58 plates. Light wear to joints and extremities touch of dustiness finger-soil and a few scuffs to covers with faint foxing to text edges; contents relatively clean with hinges sound; Very Good. Handsome edition of the French critic and historian's landmark work on English literature published first in France in 1863 and translated into English in 1871. Gebbie published this set in a variety of issues the Connoisseur Edition representing the smallest available limitation. The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd unknown books
1991réf. 45005Lanham MD: University Press of America 1991. First Printing of this edition. Octavo 22.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi1546pp. Family association copy inscribed by the translator to his sister on the front endpaper: "2/25/92 / To my beloved sister Sophie - on her birthday - with gratitude for the abiding presence of her translators genius which has been a constant source of inspiration / Love / Ephraim." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear along the flap folds. Important English-language translation of Ginsburg's work on the history of Russian Jewry under Tsar Nicholas I based on archival and other primary sources gathered in St. Petersburg at the turn of the century. University Press of America unknown books
1911réf. 41840New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1911. First American edition with Robinson's illustrations. Small quarto 26cm; blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt gray and green on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvi2111pp with 25 inserted leaves bearing tipped-in color illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Dorothy Peck Clark to front pastedown; light wear to spine ends and corners top edge gilt a bit dulled with a faint diagonal crease to first illustration; hinges sound; Very Good lacking the original glassine and publisher's box. Handsome edition of this dramatic work by the Belgian playwright and poet adapted into film six times between 1910-2011. Dodd, Mead and Company unknown 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
1983réf. 26590New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover; dustjacket; 120pp. Fine in a Near Fine First State dustjacket One Hundred Days of Solitude printed on front flap unclipped with mild wear to extremities. The Nobel Prize-winning author's powerful short novel about "a spectacular wedding a sudden scandal a perhaps reluctant murder to which an entire town appears to be an accessory before the fact and the exotic manifestations of guilt. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1919réf. 25375New Haven: Yale University Press 1919. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; 3/4 blue paper over yellow cloth with blue title label printed in black applied to spine; dustjacket; 159pp. Touch of dustiness to upper board edges and upper edge of text with a hint of offset to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn spine-sunned with a few small nicks and short tears; $1.35 price on front panel struck through with blue pencil; Very Good only. Scarce assemblage of poems by the Swedish winner of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature and only the second of Von Heidenstam's works to be translated into English. With an introduction by translator Charles Wharton Stork. Uncommon in dustjacket. Yale University Press unknown books
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
1976réf. 18838New York: Living Hand 1976. First Edition. First Printing one of 500 numbered copies. Octavo; pale gray wrappers with French flaps with titles printed in crimson on spine and front panel; 75pp. Signed by Auster on the title page. A Fine copy without flaws. Collection of poems by Du Bouchet translated by Auster from the original French. Living Hand unknown books
1965réf. 9013398Norwalk Connecticut: Heritage Press 1965. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Heritage Press hardcover books
1969réf. 9014499University Alabama: University of Alabama Press 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. University of Alabama Press hardcover books
1965réf. 9011570New York: Abrams 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The acetate dust jacket has minor chips. Abrams hardcover books
1970réf. 56117Paris: André Sauret / Boston Book and Art Publisher 1970. First American edition. Softcover. Very good to near fine condition. Quarto. 299 1pp. Half gray book board over gray flexible paper boards in original three color illustrated dustjacket with black and orange lettering on spine in original mylar jacket and housed in publisher's heavy gray paper slipcase. Design and typography by Claude Verne. "The artist never submits to his material; he makes it the instrument of his will." Parmelin. Laid in a reproduction of a photograph showing one of Gjon Mili's iconic images 10 x 8" of Picasso drawing with a small flash light a figure into the air in a dark room. Mili as a pioneer in stroboscopic and action photography using a slow shutter while Picasso drew an abstract figure into the air. The photos were intended for LIFE Magazine and taken in Picasso's ceramics studio in Vallauris. There are numerous photographs of this event posted in various collections though we have not been able to identify this particular image. A near fine copy of this homage to Picasso depicting 407 reproductions of his lithographs created between 1919 and 1930 presented in color b/w duotone and sepia. Contains two pages on the lithographic process and a complete list of Picasso's lithographs at rear. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges slightly more pronounced at head of spine small closed tears and mylar jacket here with two small closed tears plus 2 1/2 inch tear at bottom foredge of back cover. mylar jacket. André Sauret / Boston Book and Art Publisher unknown books
1932réf. 013984NY: The Limited Editions Club 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed at Verona Officina Bodoni. 4to xxi 1 491 3. Floral-patterned cloth gilt spine titles. Limited to 1500 copies this copy 1219 signed by Hans Mardersteig book designer on the colophon. A fine copy in cardboard slipcase with paper label missing its top panel. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
2011réf. 71639Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 2011. Later printing of the Pritzker Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. First 6 volumes only. Quarto 26 cm 1/2 brown cloth with tan cloth over boards. Extremities gently bumped here and there. Internally fresh and bright. Books in very good to near fine condition. In dust jackets with general mild surface wear. A foundational work of Jewish mysticism. "This is the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar which has been established by Professor Daniel Matt based on a wide range of original manuscripts. The work spans twelve volumes. The extensive commentary appearing at the bottom of each page clarifies the kabbalistic symbolism and terminology and cites sources and parallels from biblical rabbinic and kabbalistic texts." - Stanford University Press. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1986réf. UPRUCAR00hcManfred Editions 1986. Very Good. Prudek Wolfgang M. Carrying the Message: An Introduction to Iroquois Stone Sculpture. Laganiere French translation Manon. Ontario Canada: Manfred Editions 1986. Illustrated. Square 8vo. Stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Previous retailer's stamp on title page. Manfred Editions paperback books
1994réf. 233311The Easton Press 1994-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Full black leather with gilt board design and page edges. Sic raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Collector's Notes sheet. 394 pages. The Easton Press hardcover books
1987réf. CNJL2627Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition by this publisher small quarto size 418 pp. From the jacket flap: per an article by Sunil Khilnani "this is Castoriadis's 'most important work to date' providing a theoretical argument made from the Left for breaking with Marxism and laying the foundation for Castoriadis's own original political philosophy." Incredibly relevant in today's world perhaps even more so than when originally published. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full textured blue paper with gilt lettering on the spine copius section of endnotes and an Index binding small quarto size 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" 418 pp. In the publisher's dust jacket unpriced and unclipped summary of the work on the front flap short author bio on the back flap. publisher's ad for another work by this author on the back panel. ___CONDITION: Volume fine the boards clean 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; clean crisp and as new. The jacket near fine clean and without noticeable wear; a hint of sunning to the top quarter-inch of the jacket else fine. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii 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. The MIT Press hardcover books
1980réf. 72270Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1980. Franklin Library Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 397pp. Octavo 23 cm Full dark red leather with raised bands. Gilt stamped title on spine. Elaborate gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page-marker. Previous owner's circular blind embossed stamp is present on many of the preliminary and terminal pages and on several of the pages throughout the text as well-otherwise this is a nice clean and sharp copy. Illustrated with Renaissance paintings. Published exclusively for subscribers to the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. The Franklin Library unknown books
1949réf. CNJL2616Princeton: Princeton University Press 1949. Hardcover. Near fine/good . Small quarto size 311 pp. in dust jacket. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl 1885-1955 "had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years" n.b. per Wiki. This a revised and augmented edition with new appendices "on such subjects as Foundations of Mathematics Ars Combinatorioa Quantum Mechanics Physics and Biology and Evolution." per jacket flap. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full green cloth over boards "label" in black with gilt lettering stamped onto the spine binding small quarto size 9 1/8" by 6 1/4" 311 pp. In the publisher's dust jacket with a summary of the book on the front flap and publisher's ads on the back flap and back panel. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine the boards clean straight corners with minimal rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright the sole prior owner marking being a name and date and one other small annotation at the top of the front free endpaper; light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and light toning to the margins of the text. The dust jacket somewhat better than good while all parts are present and attached there is overall light soil overall edgewear the printed price was roughly torn out not cleanly cut and a ring on the verso of the front panel not visible from the front. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii 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. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1998réf. CNJL2583Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing large octavo size 290 pp. From the jacket flap: "Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the signficance of the widespread belief in ghosts asking who returned to whom from where in what form and why." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full black cloth over boards gilt lettering on the spine a short section of reproductions of artwork mostly in colour; large octavo size 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" 290 pp. Dust jacket with summary of the book on the both flaps and short author bio on back flap. ___CONDITION: Volume fine the boards clean 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; clean as new. Dust jacket also fine clean and without wear. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii 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. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
2008réf. 38069New Castle DE: Oak Knoll Press 2008. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies of which 275 were for sale.The title page of this interesting work states that it is a facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper. Following an introduction by Wolfe the book displays the facsimile on the left page and its translation into English on the opposing page. In the historical introduction to the facsimile reproduction and his translation of this work Richard J. Wolfe summarizes the professional literature on marbling and paper coloring that began to appear in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Bound with a cover-paper reproduction of an early German decorated paper with a blue cloth spine with gilt titling. In fine conditiion. Measures 5.25 x 7.5. 180 pages. BOB/062325. Oak Knoll Press 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
