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2015réf. 32240Leesburg VA: Tribal Analysis Center 2015. Fine/Fine. Leesburg VA: Tribal Analysis Center 2015. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xxiv341pp.; illus. throughout including photographs and maps. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Tribal Analysis Center unknown books
1834réf. 1358309Louisville: Wilcox Dickerman & Co 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xi 396 pages; In Very Good Minus Condition. Bound in 20th century full paneled imitation period full tree calf paneled covers with gilt borders and spine labels with gilt lettering; Boards show light plus wear to top and bottom edges; Textblock has significant uneven age-toning to edges moderate plus foxing to pages interiorly a dampstain along the fore-edge up to p. 9 creasing to corners of several pages and significant foxing to frontispiece and titlepage; Top edge of titlepage has been repaired; RW Consignment. Howes B-1059. 1358309. Special Collections - Downstairs. Wilcox, Dickerman & Co hardcover books
1966réf. 624707New York: New York Academy of Sciences 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume 132 Art. 2. Tall octavo. 771-1090pp. Printed wrappers. Owner name of a noted American psychologist on the front cover spine sunned near fine. Proceedings of a 1965 conference of the same name. New York Academy of Sciences unknown books
1954réf. NF4140GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT: TEMPLE ISRAEL 1854 -1954 Board of Trustees of Temple Adath Israel 1954 first edition fine near fine plastic dust-wrapper with two closed tears. Illustrated with photos. Board of Trustees of Temple Adath Israel unknown books
1944réf. 13642Small Town Tyrant Creative Age Press 1944 first American edition horizontal crease publishing defect to rear cloth panel else fine in just about fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with a small shallow chip to the base of the dust-wrapper spine and a one inch closed tear to the upper rear spine fold. Creative Age Press hardcover books
1931réf. 13394UNWASHED GODS Ward Lock & Co. 1931 first edition vg in attractive full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Certainly amongst the authors scarcest books to procure in dust-wrapper. Ward Lock & Co. unknown books
1925réf. 12421W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM NOVELIST ESSAYIST DRAMATIST Doran ca. 1925 first edition vg in original wraps. This 64 page pamphlet with essays about Maugham by Charles Hanson Towne & Carl & Mark Van Doren & Dorothea Lawrence Mann & Marcus Aurelius Goodrich & John Farrar as well as several letters by Maugham himself to a Mrs. Frances Hale is quite uncommon. Doran paperback books
1842réf. 1071951842. Boston: Fowle and Capen 1842. 8vo iv 390 pp. Old half calf marbled boards joints cracked text block sound but quite foxed especially at the front and back. Inscribed by the author and with the later signature of Mary C. Chapman on front pastedown. § Volume 4 of this series; this copy inscribed by Horace Mann: "C. Sumner from Horace Mann 1847." Horace Mann inscriptions are uncommon and this is a superb association. "Charles Sumner January 6 1811 - March 11 1874 was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen." Mary Chapman was involved with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and was a friend of poet Julia Ward Howe and close friend of Charles Sumner and Horace Mann. unknown books
1944réf. 06221JOSEPH THE PROVIDER Knopf 1944 first American edition a bright vg copy in a vg dust-wrapper save for a half-dollar size chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Knopf unknown books
1975réf. 06218NIGHTMARE FARM Bookfinger 1975 first American edition a near fine copy without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/1000 copies. A Gees novel. Bookfinger unknown books
1937réf. 06220AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS Knopf 1937 first American edition some off-setting to verso of front wrap due to newspaper clipping on f.e.p. else vg in wraps with some tanning to the front cover. Mann's distress at the state of German affairs eloquently stated in his reply to the Dean Of Frederick-William University on the Rhine. Knopf paperback books
1980réf. 09454FIELDS OF SLEEP Grant 1980 first American edition fine in near fine dust-wrapper with a SIGNED full color frontis by Tom Canty. 1/1200 copies. Donald M. Grant unknown books
1973réf. 06217THE GLASS TOO MANY Bookfinger 1973 first American edition a near fine copy without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/1000 copies. A Gees novel. Bookfinger unknown books
1970réf. 06216THE NINTH LIFE Bookfinger 1970 first American edition a near fine copy without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/1000 copies. A Gees novel. Bookfinger 1970 unknown books
1958réf. 11020THE ARMCHAIR ESQUIRE Putnam 1958 first edition rear corners gently bumped else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. Contributions with many of them being first book appearances by Luigi Pirandello D.H. Lawrence Ezra Pound E.E. Cummings John dos Passos Thomas Mann F. Scott Fitzgerald Theodore Dreiser Ernest Hemingway Edgar Lee Masters Thomas Wolfe H.L. Mencken Sinclair Lewis J.D. Salinger Norman Mailer Evelyn Waugh Albert Camus Aldous Huxley John Steinbeck Arthur Miller Saul Bellow Geroge Bernard Shaw et.al. Putnam unknown books
1926réf. 11377UNORDNUNG UND FRUHES LEID S. Fischer Verlag 1926 a vg copy in color pictorial boards in vg cardbord slipcase whose exterior design matches those of the end-papers. Text in German of course. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1953réf. 10446PRESENCE DE ZOLA Fasquelle Editeurs 1953 first edition some light wear and tear to the somewhat faded covers else vg in wraps as issued. The influence of Zola on their writing careers is expressed in various essays by Albert Camus Erskine Caldust-wrapper ell Jean Cocteau F. L. Green Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Francois Mauriac Andre Maurios Jules Romain Upton Sinclair Franz Werfel Stephen Zweig et.al. Fasquelle Editeurs paperback books
1850réf. 1372328Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1850. Softcover. Octavo 84 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt text on front cover and blindstamped ornamentation on both covers. Covers have bending to corners sunning to spine and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblock has foxing to many pages offsetting on to title page and preceding page and offsetting from page 84 on to next page. Shelved in Room X. 1372328. Special Collections - Downstairs. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields unknown books
1937réf. 623739Washington D.C.: National Education Association Of The United States 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Centennial edition in facsimile. 609pp. 2. Gilt-stamped brown cloth. Front hinge cracked edges rubbed else very good. National Education Association Of The United States hardcover books
2000réf. 1412395Westport CT: Greenwood Press 2000. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 366 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is navy and green with silver lettering. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Soiling to front and back boards. Soiling to text block. Shelved in Case 1. 1412395. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Greenwood Press hardcover books
2022réf. 48157Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Very Good . Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Publisher's Numbered Edition limited to 250 copies signed by Lansdale Kreutz and Mann and colophon this being #223. Octavo; bound in quarter goatskin with Japanese cloth sides; decorative endpapers; 165pp. Frontis; Color plates including fold-out illustration featuring the Artist Edition dust jacket. Errata and two publisher's bookmarks laid in. Housed in a four-flap enclosure covered in Japanese cloth and lined with red velour. Boards show very light shelfwear and a couple faint smudges; binding sound; pages unmarked. Enclosure stained along side panel; a few stray additional spots; overall a Very Good or better copy. Suntup Editions unknown books
1934réf. 470226Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition second printing clothbound issue published in the same year as the first printing with 1934 on title page and stating 'Elfte bis funfzehnte Ausgabe' on copyright page. 12mo. 343pp. Tan cloth stamped in gilt. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket which is rubbed and evenly faded on the spine. The second volume in the Joseph series. An uncommon title in dust jacket. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1990réf. 18112301New York: The Limited Editions Club printed by Heritage Printers Inc. 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk John. No. 122 of 375 copies quarto size 193 pp. signed by John Hejduk with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann 1875-1955 a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954 and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk 1929-2000 who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro b. 1947 a prolific poet and literary critic whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose he writes "A master of X-ray Mann leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love." ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather title in black on the front board black endpapers lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper quarto size 12" by 9.25" pagination: i-vi 1-183 184-186 1 colophon one of 375 copies this number 122 signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter a thirteen-page softcover booklet with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; spine is very slightly sunned else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine clean overall with a few stray marks the text block is sturdy without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine strong and sturdy clean with some minor fraying to the cloth otherwise free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___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 Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.) unknown books
1984réf. 745Exton Pa: Schiffer Publishing Ltd 1984. Hardcover. VG Slight edgewear to dj all all else is clean and crisp. Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth white & color illus. dust jacket 176 pp. 10 color 250 bw repros. A well researched and documented catalogue raisonne of this artist's work. Well known for his dramatic snow scenes Palmer 1854-1932 was the son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He was also a student and friend of Frederic E. Church. Lists 1220 works illustrates approx. 260 of them. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd hardcover books
2011réf. 531342Cambridge: Polity 2011. Softcover. Fine. First edition wrappered issue. Octavo. 179pp. Fine in wrappers. Polity unknown books
