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2002ref. 600036New York: HarperCollins 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Soiling on boards light bumping at spine ends very good in an about near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a small tear. HarperCollins hardcover books
2013ref. 568530New York: Abrams 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Large quarto. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Abrams hardcover books
1952ref. 232296Easton Press 1952. leather_bound. Very Good. 10x6x1. Full brown leather with gilt board design and page edges. Three raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Notes from the Archives sheet and an unused Easton Press bookplate. Easton Press hardcover books
1943ref. 23161New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket spine slightly turned light shelfwear to bottom edge small nick in cloth at bottom of front cover; vintage bookseller's label Kendrick Bellamy Denver on rear pastedown. Novel about a career woman a young widow who works as an account executive for a San Francisco ad agency who is sent by her boss for whom she's already set her cap on a working vacation to Baja California to check out the potential of a disused casino being refurbished and turned into a resort. While on this assignment she succumbs to the Mexican way of life falls in love with a local ranch owner and considers throwing it all over to stay down there. Then her boss shows up romantic and professional complications ensue and a hurricane helps them sort it all out. The New York Times critic faulted the book for lacking "that deep below-the-surface quality that might have given reality to her consciously contrived tale. Even the background presented with such earnest attention to detail seems never to lose the aura of travel folder literature." Kirkus Reviews on the other hand found it an "intelligently emotional women's novel" -- so like with most books the only way to find out for sure is to read it yourself. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1997ref. 73164New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997. First edition 8vo pp. xii 178; 2 maps 17 illustrations and tables in the text; fine copy in original green cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine without a dust jacket as issued. "An ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan Indonesian Borneo. Like many indigenous peoples throughout the world the Ngaju have recently been affected by exposure to world religions by improvements in transportation and communication by new demands on family-based production and by other factors pertaining to their growing incorporation into an expanding state system in an era of rapid political and economic change" OUP blurb. Oxford University Press unknown books
1838ref. 67015London: A. Schloss 42 Great Russell Street British Museum 1838. First Edition in English 12mo pp. 7 10-162; original blue paper-covered boards brown muslin shelfback printed paper label on spine; binding slightly skewed strip of tape on verso of title page reinforcing a fault in the paper; all else very good. Gibbons was a Cornish author apparently disposed towards Schiller. She also translated his Lyrical Ballads and also published An Easter Offering 1845 and An Itinerary of Launceston 1865. A. Schloss, 42, Great Russell Street, British Museum unknown books
1879ref. 48602Munich and New York: Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co 1879. Small folio pp. 55 1; 5 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout by Alexander Liezen Mayer many of them full page decorative borders by Rudolf Seitz; original red pebbled-grain cloth with red morocco spine elaborate gilt design on cover and spine back cover with blind-stamped border; a.e.g.; corners bumped extremities rubbed very light foxing; contemporary Greenleaf family gift inscriptions on flyleaf; very good and sound. Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co unknown books
1921ref. 43393Berlin: verlegt bei Erich Reiss 1921. Edition limited to 100 copies this is copy 98 large 4to 70 leaves vignette lithograph portrait on title page 10 full-page lithographs by Otto Baumberger each one signed in the margin by him in pencil; original paste-paper boards corners worn extremities lightly rubbed neatly rebacked for appearance sake the sewing structure loose but intact edges uncut; occasional mild spotting very good in a new green cloth clamshell box. An early and uncharacteristic work by Otto Baumberger 1889-1961 the noted Swiss painter and poster artist. Early on as an employee of Wolfensberger AG in Zurich he acquired a thorough knowledge of lithographic technique employed with precision in this rendering of Schiller's classic work. Later Baumberger produced some 200 posters of great quality and style. His realistic rendering of a herringbone tweed coat became a classic of Swiss poster art. verlegt bei Erich Reiss unknown books
1988ref. 28735Stroud: Catalpha Press 1988. First edition; oblong 8vo; pp. xii; 119; numerous illustrations throughout; near fine copy in original pictorial printed paper wrappers. Catalpha Press unknown books
1875ref. 6444Bremen: J. Kuhtmann 1875. First edition 5 volumes 8vo pp. 8 16 756; 2 758; 2 538; 2 639; 4 791 xx; contemporary half calf over paper-covered marbled boards scuffed vol. 5 joint cracked; very good or better. Definitive dictionary of Middle Low German. From the library of the runic archaeologist George Stephens. J. Kuhtmann unknown books
1883ref. 24504Philadelphia: George Barrie 1883. 4 volumes 4to illustrated throughout with steel engraved and wood-engraved plates and wood-engraved illus. in the text; contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards red and green morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines a.e.g.; green labels faded spine a little rubbed else generally a very good sound set amply illustrated. Includes a biographical introduction by Kjalmar H. Boyesen. George Barrie unknown books
1980ref. 126190Neu-Isenburg Germany: Edition Tiessen 1980. paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. Tiessen. 4to. paper-covered boards paper spine label slipcase. 41 3 pages. Text in German. Limited to 25 copies numbered with Roman numerals. With an original etching by Ranier Zimnik. Prospectus laid in. Slipcase torn at fore-edge and lightly soiled. Edition Tiessen unknown books
1990ref. 49189New York: Battledore Ltd 1990. hardcover. Carroll Lewis. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 111 pages. Collectors and those interested in children's books will find this work fascinating as it unearths information about the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends Reverend Charles Dodgson otherwise known as Lewis Carroll first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865 arranging to have a specially bound copy delivered to Alice Liddell the famous Alice for whom the story was spun the next month on July 4. However not several weeks after that John Tenniel the illustrator wrote to Dodgson complaining of his dissatisfaction with the printing of his illustrations. Macmillan examined one of the unbound copies of the book and agreed to fully reprint the book using a more commercial printer from London Richard Clay. The condemned printing was then sold to David Appleton & Co. an overseas publishing house who wanted to distribute copies of the book in America. Only 1952 copies were sold to them of the original 2000 copy print run. The title-pages were redone with a New York imprint dated 1866 the sheets were machine-folded and put into cloth bindings with Appleton's name on the lower spine and the new title-page substituted on a stub for the earlier one. Meanwile Macmillan completed its new edition in November 1865 but post-dated this printing 1866 in time for the holidays. As of this writing twenty-two copies of the original 1865 Alice are located and known to have survived with their original title-pages plus one copy presented to Christ Church Library currently lost by the author. This work resolves the whereabouts of Macmillan's file copy and hopefully provides a framework for future research. An excellent book which contains a wealth of information about the publication of Alice in Wonderland. Well-illustrated throughout. Battledore Ltd unknown books
1862ref. TK0016Stuttgart:: Gotta'scher 1862. 1862. Incomplete. 3 of 12 volumes. 8vo. Some foxing. Early quarter maroon calf gilt-stamped marbled boards all edges marbled; some minor wear but a very nice looking group. 3 volumes of 12 being vols. 3 4 6. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright poet philosopher and historian who is considered by many to be Germany's most important classical playwright. Gotta'scher, 1862. hardcover books
1984ref. 2352273Coraopolis Pennsylvania: Chess Enterprises Inc 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. A few smudges on wrappers owner address label inside front wrapper. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1984 Trade Paperback. 101 3 pp. The Cambridge Springs is a popular defence to the Queen's Gambit that takes its name from the famous tournament in 1904 during which it was tested in a number of games. Since then it has become firmly established as a club-player's favourite since Black sets a number of traps and can generate a very quick initiative if White fails to respond precisely. Several world champions have used the Cambridge Springs most notably Alekhine and Smyslov while Kasparov has played it on occasion including a sensationally quick victory over Karpov in 1985. Chess Enterprises, Inc paperback books
1863ref. 2348897London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1863. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Professionally rebound in half leather by McNamee Binder Cambridge. Spine toned top corner lightly discolored edges rubbed ink name on front free endpaper verso. 1863 Half-Leather. 582 6 pp. 8vo. Green leather spine and corners marbled boards and endpapers gilt titles and rules top edge gilt. Includes: An English Tragedy; Mary Stuart; Mademoiselle de Belle Isle. Frances Anne Kemble's 'Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839' has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the 'peculiar institution' and of life in the antebellum South. Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian Pierce Butler part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters and not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were they published. Kemble followed the success of these letters with the publication of a volume of plays translated from the German of Friedrich Schiller and the French of Alexandre Dumas. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover books
1887ref. 2321688Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1887. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wrappers lightly soiled edges lightly rubbed. 1887 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. Engraved illustrations. The "Song of the Bell" German: "Das Lied von der Glocke" also translated as "The Lay of the Bell" is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines one of Schiller's longest. In it Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a bellfounding with points of view and comments on human life its possibilities and risks.--Wikipedia Estes and Lauriat paperback books
1959ref. 2305308Marbach: Schiller-Nationalmuseum 1959. Trade Paperback. Good. A few spots to page ridge. 1959 Trade Paperback. 261 10 pp. German text. A bibliography of all notable mentions of the German poet/playwright from the 18th century through the 20th century. Includes a foreword by Bernhard Zeller. Schiller-Nationalmuseum paperback books
1988ref. 104363Tallahassee: Naiad Press 1988. Paperback. 86p. illustrations film stills & photos spine slightly toned mild foxing on bottom-edge of text block else a very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. An illustrated historical guide to the Emmy Award-winning film. Naiad Press paperback books
1932ref. 50497New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1932. First edition. Softcover. Good. Quarto. xiii 1 104pp. Indices. Plus 6 of 7 facsimile plates. Brown paper wrappers lettered in black spine darkened. Each facsimile plate is accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press. Edition limited to 500 copies "printed in March 1932 at the Cambridge University Press Cambridge England." Small Hebrew rubber stamp at top of title page. Bookplate on a preliminary blank with the seal of the United States reads "Gift of the People of the United States of America." Wrappers with some age brittleness and chattered about the edges. The Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
1918ref. 297997Offenbach am Main: Klingspor Press 1918. Quarto; n black paper-covered boards with vellum spine and tips; titling in gilt on the upper board and the spine; 27 pages; there is a very faint stain to the upper board from a round sticker now removed. ~~With the splendid type of Karl Klingspor and two attractively subtle decorations in gilt; designed by Peter Behrens an architect and graphic designer; one of his was Mies van der Rohe. Klingspor Press unknown books
1977ref. 91212Leipzig: VEB Fachbuchverlag 1977. cloth paper spine label dust jacket. 4to. cloth paper spine label dust jacket. 410 2 pages. First edition. Minor jacket soiling else a near fine copy. This book traces the many changing designs trends and themes seen throughout the history of typography with special emphasis on German type founders. Illustrated with nearly 400 type specimens. Includes an index and a bibliography. All in German. VEB Fachbuchverlag unknown books
1890ref. 625113Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Edition not stated. Translated by Edgar A. Bowring. 12mo. xv 343pp. Publisher's elaborately gilt brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. With several illustrations all edges gilt coated endpapers. Owner information inked on front fly over an earlier presentation stamp binding with modest general wear and spine a bit dulled pages lightly tanned a very good copy. J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover books
1951ref. 110463Zurich: Limited Editions Club 1951. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Charles Hug. Illustrated with lithographs by Charles Hug. 4to brown cloth-backed boards cloth slipcase. Zurich: Limited Editions Club 1951. Near Fine. One of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1870ref. 013684Wurzburg: Stuber's Buchhandlung 1870. Rebacked with black cloth. Previous owner's names front pastedown. May be missing front free endpaper but may not have had one. Text in German. Title translated is "Dressing and Transportation Teaching for Medical Troops". Illustrated copiously with strikingly vivid figures 111 in all. Sections on bandaging transport splints. From the time of the Franco-Prussian War. 85pp. adverts. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. General Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo. Stuber's Buchhandlung Hardcover books
