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1910réf. 9027158Boston: Little Brown 1910. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt cover stamped in gilt and elaborately stamped in blind. Light wear at extremities otherwise fine. Back of book includes publisher's contemporary advertising of other Polish-themed books. Little, Brown hardcover books
1951réf. 134367Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1951. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still reference photographs from the 1951 film. Manuscript annotations in ink noting lengths of fabric on the verso of one still. Featured are Robert Taylor Deborah Kerr Marina Berti and Leo Genn. Based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1895 novel about the love between a young Christian woman named Lygia Kerr and Marcus Vinicius Taylor a Roman patrician circa 64 A.D. Nominated for several Academy Awards. Elizabeth Taylor was set to play Lygia until production changed hands and instead she makes a cameo as a prisoner. Sophia Loren also makes a cameo her first American film credit. Set in Rome shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creases and toning overall and two stills with brief stains. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1899réf. 256739New York: F. Tennyson Neely 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Green decorative cloth ruled and lettered in silver gilt and red. Translated by J. Christian Bay. Pages 53-60 loose and laid in spine cocked a bit spine ends and corners bumped about very good. Somewhat scarce title. F. Tennyson Neely hardcover books
1991réf. 39001NY:: Hippocrene Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0870529749 . The first part of the author's Trilogy. Translated from the Polish by W. S. Kuniczak. Foreword by James A. Michener. Stated first edition thus. Foxing and dust soiling to text block edge else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Hippocrene Books, hardcover books
1992réf. 34894Fort Washington:: Copernicus Society of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0781800250 . The third part of the author's Trilogy. Translated from the Polish by W. S. Kuniczak. Stated first edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Copernicus Society of America, hardcover books
1992réf. 58967Fort Washington:: Copernicus Society of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0781800250 . The third part of the author's Trilogy. Translated from the Polish by W. S. Kuniczak. Stated first edition thus. About fine in like dust jacket.; 717 pages . Copernicus Society of America, hardcover books
réf. 71747Philadelphia: Beehive Books. Illuminated Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 156pp. Folio 37.5cm. Illustrated paper over boards. In an illustrated slipcase. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap and enclosed in a custom protective cardboard box. The box has several puncture marks but the book and slipcase are not affected. "H.G. Wells' gleefully blasphemous tale of human chimeras and deranged scientific curiosity comes to nightmarish life through the supreme brushwork and unmatched vision of Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz's renderings incorporate abstract and expressionist influences with midcentury illustration styles to create a hybrid creature all their own. Featuring an introduction by Academy Award winning filmmaker and maker of monsters Guillermo Del Toro. Beehive Books hardcover books
1947réf. 49399Krakow: Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej 1947. First edition. Softcover. g to near fine. Octavo. 84pp. Printed aqua-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A short biography of and memorial publication for Krakow-based Jesuit priest and respected youth social worker Mieczysław Kuznowicz 1874-1945 who was the founder of the Union of Industrial and Handicraft Youth in 1906. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. Index and bibliography at the rear. Text in Polish. Wrappers with some light foxing and smudging to the front cover. Wrappers in good interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Scarce. Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej unknown books
1951réf. 25407New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1951. Later printing. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing. 8 422 pages. 8vo. Paper boards. Illustrated dj. Minor wear to the extremities of the dust jackets and a small chip to the outer belly band lower edge. Boards. This copy has two dust jackets and more importantly two "belly bands" which are advertisements for the MGM film production starting Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr. We love production extras when they put two dust jackets and two belly bands on the same book! Minor rubbing to the band mostly to the rear panel. The band has three scenes from the movie on it one front one rear one small it on the spine portion. On the belly band it notes that Quo Vadis has already sold 1500000 copies and is now a Six and a half million dollar MGM Motion picture. Originally printed by Little Brown and Co. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1897réf. 002176Boston: Little Brown and Company 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Binding designed by Julius Adolph Schweinfurth with his monogram to front cover. Two volumes in paper-backed cloth dust jackets hardcovers full blue cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to front covers and spines top edges gilt other edges untrimmed magenta clay-coated endpapers dust jackets with gilt lettering and decoration to spines 8-1/4" tall 355 352 pp. illustrations in photogravure by Howard Pyle Edmund H. Garrett Evert van Muyden with photos of sculpture and architecture color maps. Both front hinges over-opened white soiling to front and rear panels of dust jacket of volume one. Extra postage required for priority or international shipping. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1928réf. 391306Boston: Little Brown and Company 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Two volume set. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Spine gilt tarnished boards modestly soiled else a very good set lacking scarce dustwrappers. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1947réf. 47205Krakow: Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej 1947. First edition. Softcover. g to near fine. Octavo. 84pp. Printed aqua-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A short biography of and memorial publication for Krakow-based Jesuit priest and respected youth social worker Mieczysław Kuznowicz 1874-1945 who was the founder of the Union of Industrial and Handicraft Youth in 1906. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. Index and bibliography at the rear. Text in Polish. Wrappers with some light foxing and smudging to the front cover. Wrappers in good interior in near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Scarce. Nakladem Zwiazku Mlodziezy Rekodzieln i Przemyslowej unknown books
1898réf. 29486Boston: Little Brown and Company 1898. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1898. "Popular Edition." Octavo; publisher's cloth in pale green dust jacket printed in red and green; 105411102pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece seven leaves of plates. External panels of jacket have faded to tan faint vertical crease to spine panel light shelf wear with brief tape repair to verso else Very Good and sound in an excellent example of the rare jacket. Little, Brown, and Company unknown books
1897réf. 109733Boston: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with 31 tissue guarded plates. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. First edition thus "New Edition". Octavos bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design top edges gilt burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-downs brief gift inscription dated 1899 on front endpages else both volumes are near fine in near fine light edge wear blue cloth dust wrappers with gilt lettering and design on the spines. Housed in a very good starting to come undone at the top and bottom of the rear side blue cloth covered slipcase. . 1897. Little, Brown and Company, hardcover books
1898réf. D20728London: J. M. Dent and Company 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Bound by Bayntun with original covers bound in. Red calf spine attractively gilt a.e.g. Housed in an open slipcase. A nice copy. J. M. Dent and Company hardcover books
réf. 007141New York: Grosset & Dunlop. Cloth. Buckram. Very Good. A copy inscribed in ink by Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor who starred in the 1951 movie version of the novel. 8vo. 421 pp. Corners with frayed fabric. Spine lightly soiled. Pages age toned. Grosset & Dunlop unknown books
1897réf. 514809Boston: Little Brown and Company 1897. Softcover. Good. First American edition wrappered issue of the first Authorized Unabridged Translation from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Octavo. 541 10 ads pp. Pictorial wrappers. Lacking rear wrap with a few short tears and thin chip on spine front cover has a small chip at one corner first few leaves have small holes in margin just a good but pleasing copy of a fragile volume. Henryk Sienkiewicz won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1897réf. 2954521897. hardcover. near fine. Translated by Jeremiah Curtin. Numerous black & white illustrations tissue guards. 2 vols. Thick 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 green morocco spines evenly faded marbled boards t.e.g. Boston 1897. New Edition with Maps of Ancient Rome and Photogravures from pictures by Howard Pyle Edmund Garrett and Evert Van Muyden and from Ancient Sculptures. Six of the numerous photogravure plates are by Howard Pyle. unknown books
