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1968ref. 596572Oxford: Oxford University Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. Small quarto. 6pp. 79-115pp. 10pp. Sewn wrappers. Fine. Containing "Rupert Brooke: Man and Monument" by Timothy Rogers "The Novels Foreshadowed: Some Recurring Themes in Early Poems by William Golding" by Cecil W. Davies "Created Creative" by Michael Paffard. Poetry by Peter Scupham Joan Warburg and Christopher Wiseman. Reviews on John Keats Byron and Shelley William Blake and more. Oxford University Press unknown books
1934ref. 512205Philadelphia: David McKay Co 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 135pp. plus illustrations. Translated from the Sanskrit by Sir Edward Arnold. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Recipient's attractive contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. cloth is lightly rubbed lightly bumped at tips of two corners else a very good copy. Inscribed by Pogany on the half-title: "To Julietta with best compliments Willy Pogany 1935. David McKay Co hardcover books
1955ref. 459241New York: The Viking Press 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 293pp. Illustrated by Olga Ley. Fine in in a lightly rubbed and spine-sunned near fine dustwrapper with a tiny abrasion at the base of the spine and a small stain on the lower panel. A nice copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1928ref. 408810New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated in color and black and white. Illustrated blue cloth gilt. Old shelf number on the spine else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover books
1983ref. 116059New York: Vantage Press 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has minor shelf rubbing to it. Vantage Press hardcover books
1969ref. 396950New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Foxing on foredge and endpapers thus very good in modestly rubbed very good dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1975ref. 376954London: Academy Editions 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 109pp. Black and white illustrations. Very slightly cocked with faint fading else near fine. Academy Editions hardcover books
1910ref. 377807London: ScribnerHutchinson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 370; 6 ads pp. 27 illustrations including a photogravure frontispiece. Endpapers by Willy Pogany. Blue cloth gilt. Bookplate of Ivor G. Guest and light bookstore stamp both on the front pastedown and modest nicking at the crown very good. ScribnerHutchinson & Co hardcover books
1993ref. 363400London: Bill Kenwright Ltd 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Playscript. 70pp. Photocopied sheets clasped in blue textured wrappers with a die-cut window revealing the title. Very good with toning wear and tidemarks to the front wrappers and first page. From the 1993 Broadway production at The Music Box of this Olivier Award-winning musical directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson starring Petula Clark David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy. Signed by Shaun Cassidy Barbara Walsh and one other cast member. Bill Kenwright Ltd unknown books
1907ref. 324678Berlin: Marquardt & Company 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with some wear at the spine ends and corners light soiling spine is darkened. Marquardt & Company hardcover books
1971ref. 274009London: Oswald Wolff 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated from the German by R.W. Last. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minimal wear. Oswald Wolff hardcover books
1920ref. 75775London: George G. Harrap 1920. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. Green cloth stamped in blue. Sixteen mounted color plates by Willy Pogany. Tiny ink mark front fly else fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with some very shallow chips at the extremities. A handsome copy of an attractive volume. George G. Harrap hardcover books
1920ref. 32219New York: Macmillan Company 1920. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Macmillan Company 1920 1929 Reissue. Octavo; publisher's cloth pictorial endpapers in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price $2.50; ix1282pp.; color frontispiece three leaves of plates collated complete. Jacket rather chipped and worn along margins with shallow losses at spine ends slightly affecting text moderate foxing to jacket and endpapers contemporary ownership signature and address pressure-stamp to front free endpaper else a Very Good sound copy. "The Children's Book of Northern Myths" jacket spine reprised by the Irish poet and novelist Padraic Colum with the vibrant illustrations of Willy Pogany. Macmillan Company unknown books
1943ref. 541653Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 196pp. Green cloth. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Fine in just about fine dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. David McKay Company hardcover books
1932ref. 18586Philadelphia: David McKay 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth silver front cover panel with cloth inset illustrated by Pogany. Fine. 192 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Will Pogany. Signed presentation copy "To Herbert Morrison from his old friend Hollywood 1937." Morrison Life Peer Baron Morrison of Lambeth was a member of the Labour Party serving as Foreign Secretary 1951 and as a Deputy Prime Minister. During World War II he served as Home Secretary. Morrison also created the London greenbelt system and was responsible for the unified London transport system. Crisp fresh and very bright copy. No dust jacket but believe not issued by publisher. David McKay hardcover books
1905ref. 51305Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1905. First edition imperial 8vo pp. 2 xii 315 1; color frontispiece portrait 14 color plates128 illustrations in the text a number full-page mostly after paintings and watercolors by the author plus 1 folding plate; original beige buckram with a large color insert on the front cover; wear at the edges spine a bit soiled and slight cracking of the cloth on the rear joint; all else very good. An uncommon history of yachting in Germany with a section on The America's Cup as well as powerboats regattas and rules. F. A. Brockhaus unknown books
1964ref. 13688New York: Fuck You Press 1964. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. The cover is by Allen Ginsberg and the work a pamphlet of 12 staplebound pages in 3 paper colors was produced on a mimeograph in an edition of 500 copies though apparently a significant number were destroyed by the mimeo. Originally intended for inclusion in The Yage Letters it was considered so obscene it was cut by the English printers. An earlier version appeared in the journal Floating Bear 1961 before Ed Sanders printed this separate edition. Maynard & Miles A9 A handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear else tight bright and unmarred. Printed pink wraps and pink blue and white papper texkblock. Limited edition of 500 copies. Fuck You Press unknown books
1930ref. 10623London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. There are two iterations of this edition 750 in the British issue and another 500 for the United States. Each signed twice by Pogany first on the limitation page and then in pencil on the frontispiece etching. The work includes twelve tipped-in color plates mounted on tipped in backings numerous small tipped in decorative pieces braced with printed head and tail pieces. This was Pogany's second book for Harrap an earlier version of the same title printed in 1909 having established his reputation as a book illustrator. Pogany is said to have creditted Harrap for giving him his "first big chance." Minor shelf/edge wear spine evenly sunned else tight bright and unmarred. Full teal leather binding four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements red ink decorative element lightly marbled endpages frontispiece tipped in plates on mounts teg. 4to. 173pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed twice by the artist. Numbered limited edition this being 387 of 750. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1986ref. 20552Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget 1986. Hardcover. Octavo 22.5 cm pp. 1373. Blue cloth boards no jacket. Endpapers are a map of the North Sea. Light edge wear and smudging. Kunnskapsforlaget hardcover books
1906ref. S6919Berlin:: Druck and Verlag von Georg Reimer 1906. 1906. 8vo. xix 859 pp. Index detailed full color folding map showing where minerals are found in Germany. Original printed wrappers. Fine. RARE. Second edition first with Bruhns. On the useful minerals found in the German Empire. Dechen was a prominent German geologist. The first edition was issued in 1873. Franz Siegfried Willy Bruhns also a German mineralogist lectured at Bonn University and taught at the Petrographic Institute of the University of Strassbourg. See: "Dechen Ernst Heinrich Karl von" within Encyclopaedia Britannica vol. 7 11th ed. Cambridge University Press. p. 912. Druck and Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1906. unknown books
1954ref. 349650New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1954. Hardcover. x 246p. fore-edge stained else very good condition in an unclipped and heavily worn dj with a tear along the bottom edge. On the fight to save the Jewish population of Denmark from the Nazis. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1954ref. 627379Paris: Artaud 1954. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Text in French. Small quarto. 88pp. Illustrated in black and white. Printed wrappers in dust jacket. Ink notation on front fly foxing on topedge crease on the spine very good in a very good or better dust jacket with light edgewear tiny nicks at the crown and sunning on the spine of wraparound band. The street photography of Ronis combined with the text of Mac Orlan. Artaud unknown books
1947ref. 2330191Basle Switzerland: Amerbach Publishing Comp 1947. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rebound in full leather originally published in printer wrappers which are not included here. Pages lightly toned boards lightly rubbed and slightly discolored with a golden tinge to the red on both front and back possibly transfer from another binding or document but this seems unlikely given the color. 1947 Full-Leather. 11 1 24 pp. Red leather marbled endpapers. A short volume providing historical context for the imagery contained in the Weingartner manuscript along with color reproductions of all 24 figures. The Weingarten Manuscript German Weingartner Liederhandschrift is a 14th-century illuminated manuscript containing a collection of Minnesang lyrics. It is currently in the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart with the shelf-mark HB XIII 1. In Minnesang scholarship it is referred to as Manuscript B. Along with the Codex Manesse MS. C and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift MS. A it is one of the major sources of Minnesang texts from the beginnings around 1150 to the end of the 'golden age' around 1230. Amerbach Publishing Comp hardcover books
1931ref. 1415717New York: Paul B. Hoeber Inc 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxxiii 2 427 pages plus eleven plates including frontispiece. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full red cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine and blind-tooled emblem to rear board. In clear plastic cover. Spine has heavy rubbing throughout with fading to gilding and cloth completely rubbed through in a few spots. Boards have bumping to fore corners rubbing and scuffing throughout and slightly loose joints; front board has heavier rubbing near spine. Text block has age-toning and scuffing to edges with dust soiling to top edge; gift inscription dated April 1931 to front free endpaper and age-toning and light scuffing throughout. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. 1415717. Special Collections - Upstairs. Paul B. Hoeber, Inc hardcover books
1946ref. 54207Basel: Les éditions Holbein 1946. First edition. Softcover. Good to fine condition. Elephant Folio. 8 2pp. 1 10 plates. Original stiff gray wraps in original cream dustjacket with black lettering and monogram in red on cover with original glassine. Includes the following plates: Divan Japonais Reine de Joie Jane Avril Confetti May BelfortLa Revue Blanche May Milton L'Argent Au Concert and Débauche. The plates are reproduced in photochromy and printed lithographically by Orell Füssli Graphic Arts S.A. Zurich. Text in French. Glassine with several small chips more pronounced at tail of spine. Dustjacket with very light wear. Posters in fine condition. Les éditions Holbein unknown books
