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1845réf. 68028London: Joseph Smith 193 High Holborn 1845. 16mo pp. xii 533 1 ads; inserted engraved frontispiece and title page illustrated with woodcuts throughout; original olive cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine a.e.g.; light wear; very good clean and sound. Includes lengthy sections on mechanics astronomy hydrostatics pneumatics optics magnetism electricity and galvanism. Joseph Smith, 193, High Holborn unknown books
1996réf. 569088New York: E.P. Dutton 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1974réf. 576413Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in an about fine original unprinted acetate dust jacket with slight rubbing. One of 1000 hardcover copies. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
2006réf. 64230London: Hakluyt Society 2006. Large 8vo pp. xcvii 1 341 1; ; frontispiece plus 10 maps and illustrations; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no.15 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. "Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of Eldorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. Hakluyt Society unknown books
2010réf. 64722Iowa City: JOMO Publishing 2010. 8vo pp. 60; fine in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum poet fine press printer and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. "Concrete blocks uses anagrams to tell the love story of Lily and Fred." Joyce Holland is one of several pseudonyms used by Dave Morice. Iowa only in OCLC. JOMO Publishing unknown books
1970réf. 97678Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0807108456 . Second printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Louisiana State University Press, hardcover books
1984réf. 61602Berkeley Los Angeles & London: University of California Press 1984. First edition folio pp. iii-229 1; illustrated throughout some in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker with his ownership signature and date on front free endpaper in red ink. "The Speculum humanae salvationis occupies a unique place in the history of the book. It is the only medieval work that exists in manuscripts in blockbooks and in sixteen later incunabula" jacket blurb. University of California Press unknown books
1978réf. 61681Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1978. Second printing small folio pp. 255 1; map endpapers 3 bifolium inserts printed in color illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original charcoal cloth stamped in white on upper cover and spine; the dust jacket with a few short tears and nicks. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Adrian Wilson on the half-title: "For Kim Merker / best of friends / and best of printers / Adrian Wilson October 14 1983." Mr. Wilson reconstructs "the making of the Nuremberg Chronicle; the compilation of manuscript sources by its author; the artists' first concepts for the illustrations; the patrons' agreements for financing the publication; the layouts; the printing; the advertising; the distribution and the final settlement" p.11. Nico Israel unknown books
1995réf. 62303Iowa City Iowa: University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop 1995. 4to pp. 24 self-wrappers; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. "Special giant sized 1995 issue spectacular!" "Produced by Jim Snitzer and Janice Frey at the offset workshop under the auspices of the University of Iowa Center for the Book." OCLC notes that the edition size was 1250 copies 250 of which were signed by the artist. This is unsigned. University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop] unknown books
1996réf. 453623New York: E.P. Dutton 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1987réf. 211450New York: Dutton 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
1958réf. 15491New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition 8vo pp. xxii 266; 2 portraits on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine copy in the jacket. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings preserved by Stanislaus" jacket blurb. Viking Press unknown books
1987réf. 42202New York: E.P. Dutton 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Remainder mark else fine in fine dustwrapper. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1934réf. 140949980New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First authorized American edition first printing. xvii 768pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored cloth lettered in black an red over beveled boards top edge stained red. Near Fine with light wear and toning to cloth two bookplates to front paste down. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with designer's name Reichl to bottom corner of front panel spine darkened and extremities toned a few closed tears archival tape to verso reinforcing the ends of the spine and flap folds and the entire front flap fold. Slocum 21. A nice copy of the novel that was sued in the Southern District of New York in 1933 in the famous trial named United States vs. One Book Called Ulysses. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and attorney Morris Ernst arranged a deliberate legal challenge. The U.S. government brought an in rem action a lawsuit against the physical object to seize a copy of Ulysses under tariff and obscenity laws. Federal Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not obscene effectively lifting the ban and permitting its publication in the United States. Random House unknown books
1971réf. 17215Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good . First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Mississippi civil rights activist Joyce A. Ladner's pioneering sociological study of urban Black girlhood comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. "Joyce A. Ladner spent four years interviewing observing and socializing with more than a hundred girls living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She was challenged by preconceived academic ideas and labels and by her own past as a black child in rural Mississippi. Rejecting the white middle-class perspective of "deviant" behavior she examined the expectations and aspirations of these representative black girls and their feelings about parents and boyfriends marriage pregnancy and child-rearing. According to Ladner 'The total misrepresentation of the Black community and the various myths which surround it can be seen in microcosm in the Black female adolescent.'" - University of Nebraska Press Ex-Ramapo College of New Jersey Library with associated label to spine and occasional stamps to pages. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxvi 304pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket with library label to spine bumping to head and tail of spine heaving toning to flaps and library stamp to top edge of text block. Bound in light gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light soiling to cloth. Library glue to pastedowns and card to rear free endpaper. Occasional pencilled notes or underlines to pages throughout. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1934réf. 12475New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- in Good DJ. First American Edition Second Edition. Hardcover. DJ designed by Ernst Reichl and shows Reichl's name at bottom right corner. Noted flaws notwithstanding a presentable copy of the first "legal" publication of this 20th century classic. Bookseller ticket on rear inside boards. Gift inscription on ffep to former owner. Bound by the Modern Library H.Wolff. Light shelf/edge wear spine shows even toning wrapping around to front and rear boards near hinges spotting at front board gutter darkening toned text block else tight bright and unmarred. DJ shows toning at spine moderate chipping at head and heel front and back shows even toning circular stain on cover else clean and bright. 8vo. 768pp. Beige cloth beveled boards black and red ink lettering printed advertisement on rear dj. Random House hardcover books
1992réf. 11879New York: Brunner/Mazel 1992. Reprint. Wraps. Very Good. Reprint. Wraps. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Inscription on ffep. 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. Creasing else tight bright and unmarred. Glossy paper wraps. 8vo. 491pp. Index. Annotation on rear. Brunner/Mazel unknown books
réf. 11939Hardcover/Wrappers. Very Good/VG. Hardcover/Wrappers. Books include. Signed by Oliver Sacks. The Poems of John Donne by Sir Herbert Grierson 1950. DJ clipped and chipped. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Reprint 1943. DJ clipped and chipped. THe Poetical Works of Robert Browning in two volumes with portraits 1943. Reprint. No dj. Receipt laid in. 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 mostly bumped corners scuffing to edges toning overall. Moderately shelfworn chipped and toned with elements of dampstaining. Mostly 8vo. illus b/w. All signed or stamped by former owner dj -dj wrappers. hardcover books
2022réf. 10997London: Faber & Faber 2022. Fascimile. Hardcover. Fine In Fine Box. Fascimile. Hardcover. "Finnegans Wake is a novel by James Joyce written in 1939. It is considered one of the most complex books in English literature as well as being unique in its experimental writing style. The purpose of the work is to visually display this complexity. Using a classic 1965 edition by Faber and Faber the book was disbound woven and rebound respecting the original order of the pages and preserving the same cover. The new edition consists of 4 volumes covering the four parts and 450 pages of the original edition." Artist Statement Concept and weaving by Ximena Pérez Grobet. Unbinding and rebinding by Poncho Martínez. Assistant Teresa del Junco. The unique copy was placed in 2020 at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. Before it was sent off Ximena had the work carefully documented leaf by leaf volume by volume. She then sought to have an edition produced that might make the monumental work more accessable to a broader audience. Thus this edition embodies as much as can be captured of the original maintaining the four volumes mirroring Joyce's sections and housed in a pictorial flapped slipcase the inner flap of which contains a printed description of the project. Tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial wraps housed in a matching flapped slipcase. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Numbered limited edition of 300. Signed by the artist. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1963réf. 11091New York: Rolton House Publishers Inc 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Wear to paper over boards with rubbing toning and bumps to covers corners and edges. Small spot of what appears to be a burn mark at top edge of front cover. Text block is very loose in boards with connective string visible. Bottom 3" of text block have come loose from binding completely. A touch of dampstaining to bottom edges of pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. An admittedly worn intact copy of this 1963 illustrated children's book by Charles Tazewell. The Littlest Fridgit fails twice in his assignment to decorate a small village for Christmas but his sorrow makes possible the greatest reward a Fridgit can receive--a kiss from the Christmas Spirit.Publisher. Rolton House Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1910réf. 190172Brussels: Ministère des colonies : En vente chez Falk fils 1910. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear to wraps pages are clean and clear all plates are present. Oversized tan portfolio wraps with black lettering; 290 pp 2 folded maps 29 leaves of color plates. Text is in French. Ethnographic notes on the peoples commonly called Bakuba as well as on related peoples the Bushongo. Watercolors by Norman H. Hardy. 15x11x1" Ministère des colonies : En vente chez Falk fils paperback books
1978réf. 404447Northridge California: Lord John Press 1978. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards. Fine. Copy number 1 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Lord John Press hardcover books
1927réf. 6931Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1927. 9th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 9th Printing. Hardcover. In a signed binding by noted New York bookman and binder Whitman Bennett with original wrappers bound in. The 9th printing from the wholly new and corrected setting of type prepared for the eight printing. Light shelf/edge wear ffep split at joint repairable light rubbing at hinges else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound burgundy leather spine and tips marbled paper boards matching marbled endpages four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements teg. 8vo. 735pp. Original blue wrappers bound in. Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
1968réf. 5638New York: Viking Press 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. First American Edition. Hardcover. Introduction & notes by Richard Ellmann. A very handsome copy. Tight bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. Black paper boards printed spine label frontispiece fold-out plate. 8vo. 16pp. Illus. b/w plates. Viking Press hardcover books
1950réf. 5982New York: Gotham Book Mart 1950. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. A Proceeding of the James Joyce Society delivered at the Meeting of November 18 1948. Minor shelf/edge wear touch of sun at the spine booksellers stamp at the rear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps black ink lettering. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. b/w plates. Gotham Book Mart unknown books