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réf. 12199Original Wraps. Very Good. Original Wraps. From the Library of Oliver Sacks. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Books include: The Future of an Illusion 1960. An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 1969. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1962 On Creativity and the Unconsciousness Harper Touchstone 1958. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections a shipping surcharge may be calculated upon packing. Any shipping cost increase will be submitted for approval before the order is processed.". Various states of wear moderately shelfworn chipped and toned with elements of dampstaining. Mostly 8vo. Illus. b/w wrappers. unknown books
1973réf. 242010New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973. First. hardcover. near fine. Color illustrations throughout. Slim folio red cloth with inset calligraphic label on cover board slipcase lightly rubbed. New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973. Ownership signature on front endpaper otherwise a near fine copy in a very good slipcase. Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
1906réf. 1414808Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co 1906. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 618 pages plus xxiii plates. In Very Good condition. In full burgundy cloth binding with gilt titling to spine. Boards show ight shelving wear with rubbing along edges along joints and at corners. Some scuffing to covers. Text block is darkly age toned and moderately worn along edges with dust soiling to gilt top edge. Moderate age toning throughout. Bookplate from former owner on front pastedown. Shelved in Room F. 1414808. Special Collections - Upstairs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co hardcover books
1841réf. 1414853Firenze Florence: Sansone Coen 1841. First Italian Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 946 pages. In Very Good minus condition. In green leather quarter binding with gilt titling and decoration to spine and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Boards show moderate shelving wear with scuffing to covers. Rubbing along edges at head and tail and at corners. Scrape along fore edge of front cover. Faint cracking to leather on spine. Small area of chipping at the head. Exposed board at the fore corners. Text block is lightly age toned and moderately foxed along the edges faint dust soiling to the top edge. Faint water damage near the bottom of the gutters on endpapers through p. 3. Shelved in Room F. 1414853. Special Collections - Upstairs. Sansone Coen hardcover books
1918réf. 1414873New York: William Wood & Company 1918. Hardcover. Octavo xii 317 pages. In Very Good condition. In full blind stamped green cloth binding with gilt titling to spine. Some scuffing and wear to boards. Rubbing along edges and at corners. Light bumping to the fore corners. Some splitting to cloth at the head. Text block is moderately toned and worn along edges. Dust soiling to top edge. Light age toning throughout. Small label from former seller and ink ownership inscription on front pastedown. Very faint tidemarks in gutters of early pages. Shelved in Room F. 1414873. Special Collections - Upstairs. William Wood & Company hardcover books
1960réf. 1412679New York: George Braziller Inc 1960. First American Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 320 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full purple cloth binding. Jacket is purple with white titling. Jacket shows shelving wear along edges with some chipping and closed tears. Faint scuffing to covers. Price unclipped: "$4.00". Boards are rubbed and subbed along the edges. Text block is lightly age toned with some scuffs to the bottom edge. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1412679. Special Collections - Upstairs. George Braziller, Inc hardcover books
1966réf. 55933Paris: Trianon Press 1966. Limited First edition. Softcover. Very good to fine condition. 171/228 hand-numbered on both limitation pages with lithographic signature in English and Hebrew part. Elephant Folio 17 3/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 3/8". XXIII I 135pp. in 4-leaf signatures as issued. Uncut. Original glassine over gilt-lettered stiff parchment wrappers. The book is housed in its original gilt-lettered vellum clamshell box with protective foam cushion silver gilt clasp and protective foam cushion. Contains lithographed illumonated title page and frontispiece. Frontispiece with Ben Shahn signature in plate. The illuminated pages were reproduced by collotype and hand-stenciled in the workshop of MM. Hourdebaigt and Crampe under the direction of Trianon Press. Striking edition of the Haggadah splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page color colotype plates after Shahn's original watercolors ten plates rendered in brown after Shawn drawings two lithographs one with gold leaf and pochoir additions frontispiece and the title page. The illuminated pages were reproduced in colotype and hand-stencil in the workshop of M.M. Hourdebaigt and Crampe and masterfully calligraphed by Ben Shahn. The Haggadah tells the story of the Hebrew people during the scriptural time of their captivity in Egypt and their exodus to freedom. According to Ben Shahn this Haggadah is the reflect of his own memories of the Passover Seder. 1/228 copies on watermarked pure rag Arches Verge paper of which this is No. 171. A total of 292 copies were printed. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box lightly discolored along edges with minor chipping on back cover. Silver clasp tarnished. Box in overall very good wrappers and interior in very good to fine condition. Trianon Press unknown books
1968réf. 469905London: National Theatre Company / Printed by Franell Enterprises 1968. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition revised draft later working script unpublished. Quarto. 2 12 12 9 12 8pp. Bradbound light blue unprinted wrappers featuring a die-cut window on the front wrap with mimeographed interior pages printed on rectos only and a control number "32" on the first page. Near fine with a couple of stains at the bottom of the front wrap and light edgewear. Inscribed on the title page with an original 12-line poem by Ted Hughes to publisher Richard Gilbertson. A copy of the second revised script written by Turner for the National Theatre Company production in London during the winter of 1967-1968 and greatly revised by Hughes prompting him here to strike through Turner's contractually required credit line. The text differs in many respects from the first rehearsal script. OCLC locates three copies. A rare playscript accompanied by a wonderfully whimsical poem to Gilbertson his publisher and friend. Sagar and Tabor A16b. [National Theatre Company] / (Printed by Franell Enterprises unknown books
1981réf. 1417643New York: The Members of the Limited Editions Club 1981. Limited Edition #1020/2000. Hardcover. Quarto 319 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good slipcase. Slipcase spine is burnt orange with gilt block lettering. Bound in publisher's off-white linen with copper lettering to spine and embossed titling to front cover. Slipcase shows light shelf wear with rubbing to corners and edges and a few light scratches and marks to covers. Boards show very light overall shelf wear. Textblock is clean. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Numbered and signed by author on rear limitations page. Illustrated with 18 wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Shelved in Room A oversize. Fritz Eichenberg 1901-1990 was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion social justice and nonviolence. This is his Illustration for Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's "The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus" written in 1669 against the background of the Thirty Years War. 1417643. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Members of the Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1821réf. 20381Milano: Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi & Comp. Typof Gio. Perottaography 1821. Hardcover. Pebbled cloth spines and corners. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. A magisterial work on the immense symbolic and allegorical vocabulary used in painting and sculpture in the early Modern era. While no work could possibly encompass every iconographic essay nor hope to capture the infinite variants on particular iconographic notions this work comes as close as possible and brings order to the subject that probably baffles many a modern museum goer. Plus the illustrations are pleasing in and of themselves. 4to. Vol. 1: xii 17-240 8 pp. Missing pages with descriptions of plates 1 to 8. Vol. 2: 1-240 8 pp. Plate volume: 240 hand-colored etched plates all painted by Pistrucci. Think of a human personality trait or of any allegorical painting's subject and Pistrucci renders a version that captures the typical representation of it. Often times the representation is of a dichotomy such as day and night east and west early and late fertility and sterility. Pistrucci's style befits the mythological tenor of the genre and one can easily imagine the same images as part of the stately decoration of a monument an august public edifice a theater -- the ceiling fresco a frieze a sculpted pediment. Scattered light soiling including occasional foxing. Plates are generally clean and bright. Both volumes rebacked with black cloth spine labels preserved and mounted. Both copies tight. Moderate wear along edges. As mentioned already pages 1-16 missing from the first volume. Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi & Comp. Typof Gio. Perottaography hardcover books
1922réf. 204721922. Full Limp Red Calf. Slipcase -- marbled paper pastedown on all sides other than opening. Chemise or inner folder -- thick glossy card stock all sides other than that has red calf with title label. Emily Swinton. Magnificent illuminated manuscript version of the Rubaiyat or some verses from the Rubaiyat. The illuminated borders are singular -- their design is unlike that we are familiar with and not even vaguely similar to anything we have ever seen produced by a latter-day illuminator professional or amateur. Their tracery is of blues greens reds some yellow in a few instances and not least the all important gilt. The illuminator surely was paying homage to some Islamic and Persian illumination in her palette but overall these sources are but influences; the illuminations are far from merely imitative. The design pulls you in and as one gazes longer one will discover small figurative imagery woven into the lines and swirls of the larger ornamentation. Words are beyond us to come close to capturing their complexity and character -- our photos hopefully will impart something of that. Let us just say the colors are deep and bold. Within these extraordinary borders is the calligraphic text rendered in a stunning easily legible Gothic Fraktur script. And there are four dream-like miniature watercolors as well of scenic Persian villages. N.d. circa early 1920s. 4to. 28.5 by 19 cm. Unpaginated 14 leaves with illumination -- illumination on one side. The back side of the leaf then left blank. Tissue guards for each page with illumination. The first leaf has no text -- it is a rectangular abstract design suggestive perhaps of a spectacular rug and inspired by such illuminated painting as one finds in many an antiquarian Koran. The next leaf is the title page with the words appearing to float on the page. The lettering has a distinctive verticality and the gilt letters are both clearly the letters they are supposed to be but have an abstraction that one can imagine they are Arabic script as well. The last two leaves with a more restrained formalistic illumination has evenly spaced dome-shaped pointers as one finds in Koranic decoration to highlight important passages. The binding slipcase and chemise are functional but don't really do the contents justice. Other than some crease marks on the calf and light wear overall to these protective features the binding and slipcase present no issues. unknown books
1983réf. 1418040Boston: G.K. Hall & Company 1983. Hardcover. Tall Octavo xiii unpaginated pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth with green titling to spine and front board. Jacket is gray with green titling. Jacket has toning to spine shelfwear and a few small closed tears to edges a chip to center of spine and small areas of chipping throughout. Spine and boards have light shelfwear to edges and light rubbing throughout. Text block has "NOT FOR RESALE" stamped to fore edge and light scuffing to edges. Text in English and French. Shelved in Locked Annex ND-HV. 1418040. FP New Rockville Stock. G.K. Hall & Company hardcover books
1968réf. 350753Mexico City: Editorial Grijalbo 1968. Hardcover. xxxix 347p. blue cloth boards with gilt titling no dustjacket 8.5x6 inches appendices and index; two tiny stains on front pastedown and free endpaper paper lightly toned otherwise in very good condition. Second Spanish language edition stated. Colección Ciencias Económicas. Editorial Grijalbo hardcover books
1982réf. 24110703New York: Targ Editions William Targ at The Grenfell Press 1982. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good . First edition in English one of 250 copies small quarto size 49 pp. Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987 born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour was the first woman elected to the the Académie française 1980. She was the winner of the Prix Femina and Erasmus Prize and in 1965 was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This collection of her poems are primarily from her 1956 book "Les Charites d'Alcippe" "The Alms for Alcippe" "the one book of original verse published in the author's maturity containing only those poems she had saved from many years of writing.They represent a crystallization of the most important subjects and themes that have preoccupied her throughout her career" n.b. from the Introduction p. 7. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter blue cloth over grey paper-covered boards debossed on the front board is Yourcenar's signaure in blind gilt lettering on the spine blue endpapers with the fore- and bottom edges of the free endpapers uncut frontispiece a black-and-white reproduction of a photograph of the author title page in blue and black; Centaur type on Frankfurt paper small quarto size 10 5/8" by 6 1/2" pagination: 1-6 7-47 1 blank 1 colophon one of 250 copies signed by Yourcenar at the colophon. With the original glassine wrapper. ___CONDITION: Volume fine overall 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; a hint of sunning to the top few inches of the blue cloth on the front board else fine. The glassine wrapper better than very good clean with some offsetting where it meets the blue cloth and light edgewear mostly at the head and tail of the spine with a small chip at the bottom of the back panel near the spine. ___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. Targ Editions [William Targ at The Grenfell Press] hardcover books
1898réf. 012460London: Macmillan 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth 4to unpaginated title page in red and black the rest in black. Green cloth faded covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine internals fine. 1908 gift inscription ffe. Solid reference copy. William Brown Macdougall 1868 - 1936 was a Scottish artist wood engraver etcher and book illustrator whose motifs reflected influence of Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts. Macmillan hardcover books
1990réf. 271858Hudson: Anthroposophic Press 1990. Softcover. Fine. Second edition. Second Printing. Octavo. Trade Paperback in Fine condition. Anthroposophic Press unknown books
1986réf. 32159Kansas City: The Lowell Press 1986. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XLVII 1 226pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover and portrait in gilt on front cover. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Richard L. Sutton. Remarkable edition of Girolamo Mercuriale's "De morbis cutaneis" 1572 considered the first scientific tract on skin diseases. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. The Lowell Press hardcover books
1924réf. 1400200New York New York: Duffield & Company 1924. First US Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 135 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is tan cloth worn paper label with black lettering. Boards have moderate rubbing wear and chipping along extremities moderate bumping and fraying to fore corners; spine moderately cocked paper spine label has moderate age-toning tearing and rubbing. Textblock edges have severe age-toning; interior has previous seller's sticker to front pastedown mild creasing to endpapers and moderate age-toning throughout text. Shelved in Room Z. 1400200. Special Collections - Upstairs. Duffield & Company hardcover books
2005réf. 1395936New York New York: The New Press 2005. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 325 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is dark blue with white and orange lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "$24.95" on front flap and has mild shelving wear along spine head. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head tail and joints spine mildly cocked. Text block has mild scuffing along edges. Signed flat by Henning Mankell Author on title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1395936. Special Collections - Upstairs. The New Press hardcover books
1957réf. 1397551Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 119 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is cream with orange and black. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price partially cut from front flap with only "$3" visible has mild general age-toning shelving wear along extremities a 1in. closed tear along head edge moderate soiling along covers and open tearing along spine head head joints and rear head fore corner. Boards have mild discoloration along front tail edge and moderate shelving wear along extremities; spine moderately cocked. Textblock has moderate age-toning along fore and tail edges head edge dyed red/pink and moderately sun-faded; mild foxing to endpapers. Shelved in Room Z. 1397551. Special Collections - Upstairs. Indiana University Press hardcover books
1966réf. 1397817London UK: Peter Owen 1966. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 160 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is lime green with white and green lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "30s" on front flap has mild shelving and moderate rubbing wear along extremities moderate discoloration along front fore edge. Boards have mild shelving wear and discoloration along extremities; spine mildly cocked. Textblock edges have mild soiling and scuffing along head and fore edges; mild bending wear along title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1397817. Special Collections - Upstairs. Peter Owen hardcover books
1974réf. 349923Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editores 1974. xvi 520p. text in Spanish second edition stated trade paperback bound in lightly worn wraps. Siglo Veintiuno Editores unknown books
1781réf. 1409442London; Edinburgh: W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech 1781-1785. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small quartos Nine Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. In fine matching tree-calf bindings with elaborate gilt decoration along board edges and spines and gilt roll along the turn-ins; spines with gilt titling on colored morocco labels; with bound-in ribbon bookmarks. Boards show moderate shelf wear with small scuffs to covers rubbing along edges and mild bumping to fore corners. Fore corners often show small areas of exposed board. Splitting to joints and hinges of most volumes. Light shallow chipping to heads and tails of spines; heavier on Vol. I with some loss of material. Some rubbing to gilt elements on spines. Text blocks show moderate rubbing and wear along edges with dust soiling to top edges. All volumes moderately age toned and foxed throughout. Some pencil and pen numbering/notation on verso of the front flyleaves; a single mark in most volumes with more notes in Vol. I. CONTENTS: Vol. I 2 iii 2 iv-xxi 3 514 pages plus frontispiece and plates i-ii; Vol. II 4 517 pages plus plates iii-x.; Vol. III iv 4 524 pages plus plates xi-xv1 xv2 xv3-xxiii; Vol. IV vii 352 pages plus plates xxiv-liii1 liii2-lxxvii lxxix lxxviii lxxx-xcix; Vol. V vii 440 pages plus plates c-clxii; Vol. VI 4 443 plus plates clxiii-cxcvii; Vol. VII vii 452 pages plus plates cxcviii-ccxl1 ccxl2 ccxl3-ccli; Vol. VIII v 2 352 pages plus plates cclii-ccxcv; Vol. IX viii 422 2 pages plus plates cccii-cccvii. Shelved in Room A. 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. This is an excellent first edition of William Smellie's influential English translation of the Comte de Buffon's monumental work the Histoire Naturelle which was a comprehensive multi-volume treatise on the most current natural science of the time. 1409442. Special Collections - Upstairs. W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech hardcover 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
1820réf. 5871New Haven: Howe & Spalding 1820. First English Edition. Original blue paste paper boards. Very good; a small piece torn from the blank margin of the title page; spotting & toning. 8vo xv 1 17 - 86 2 - adverts pp. printed recommendation slip signed in type by Eli Ives and Benjamin Silliman. A detailed account of the author's experiments with the compound as a drug. Tipped into the book is a printed recommendation by B Silliman. Austin #1183. Howe & Spalding hardcover books
