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1979réf. 20552NY: Random House 1979. Limited issue of the first edidtion of 500 numbered copies signed by Styron on the limitation page as issued. Copy #132. Full cloth. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Spine cloth with beginning toning; slipcase with beginning edge toning. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. National Book Award winner and the basis for the 1982 film starring Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep who won her first Oscar for her performance of the title character. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House hardcover
1979réf. 20552NY: Random House 1979. Limited issue of the first edidtion of 500 numbered copies signed by Styron on the limitation page as issued. Copy #132. Full cloth. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Spine cloth with beginning toning; slipcase with beginning edge toning. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. National Book Award winner and the basis for the 1982 film starring Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep who won her first Oscar for her performance of the title character. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House hardcover books
1724réf. 000423Leiden: Samuelem Luchtmans 1724. Hardcover. See Description. Second and best Burmann edition. 4to. pp. 154 760 96. With engraved frontispiece depicting the Argonauts. Title is printed in red and black with vignette medallion depicting an ancient rowing ship. Very faint library stamp in outer margin of title and on p. 101. Bound in attractive modern half calf with marbled boards and end papers. Original spine label is preserved. Interior is generally clean with periodic mild scattered foxing; occasional small tears are neatly sealed; some staining present on the bottom outer marginal corner of some leaves. Gaius Valerius Flaccus was a first century c.e. Roman poet. His surviving epic verse work the "Argonauticon" describes the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the legendary Golden Fleece. The work exists in eight books but was left incomplete by the author. This edition of the "Argonauticon" was edited by Pieter Burmann 1668-1741 a professor of History and Eloquence at Utrecht and Leiden. He compiled and included copious notes from previous scholars. Detailed indexes are given in the rear. Burmans edition also contains the "Supplement of Pius" and the "Argonautica of Orpheus." Schweiger II p. 1100; Dibdin II p. 516; Brunet V 1046 "Bonne edition"; Graesse VII. Samuelem Luchtmans hardcover
1909réf. 035420London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Large 4to 26 x 31. A very good copy with the scarce original dust jacket. No Date. 1909. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth extravagantly stamped in gilt decoration to the front board gilt lettering very good and bright having been protected by the dust jacket now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Original plain endpapers. Contents clean and tight neat gift inscription to the front free end paper plates and text unmarked captioned tissue guards to all plates. A very good copy of this superb edition with the rare dust jacket. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover
1968réf. 018120New York: Harper & Row 1968. 1st Edition Early Reprint. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Near Fine DJ. 6 1/4 " Tall. Very Early Reprint 1968 No First Edition Statement; Dj Has Publisher's Code 0368 At Bottom Of Front Flap And Publisher's Printed Price Label $4.95 At Top.Unpaginated; Interior Clean. Boards Clean And Bright; Dj Virtually New. Signed "Corita" On Front Endpaper In Her Distinctive Handwriting. Harper & Row hardcover
réf. 158404Hildesheim Olms 1962. 4 volumes: VI770;826; 852; 1065 p. Cloth. 24.5 cm Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover
2 Bde. in einem. [5] Bll (dabei Subscribentenverzeichnis)., 48 S.; [6] Bll. (dabei Subscribentenverzeichnis), 50 S. Quer-4°. HLdr. d. Zt. Durchgehend etwas fingerfleckig. Titel oben etwas beschintten, kl. Verlust Titelornament. Erstausgaben.
1718réf. 8872Printed for J.T. Jacob Tonson and sold by J. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar 1718. 4to. on laid paper some mild age- and damp-marking to several leaves; strongly bound in twentieth century boards paper label a bright crisp copy. Although attributed here to Beaumont and Fletcher later scholarship increasingly favours authorship by Fletcher and Massinger. The play one of the finest Restoration comedies was first performed in 1622 with the first licensed edition following in 1647. We have not been able to trace another eighteenth century edition of this work on its own. Tannenbaum 501; see CBEL I 635. Printed for J.T. [Jacob Tonson] and sold by J. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, hardcover
1975réf. 006277EXTRA SHIPPING will be required. Please ask. London: The Hogarth Press 1975 - large heavy set of books. 1st. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good to Very Good. 10" x 8". Clear Brodart Covering. Previous owner's name on inside 1st page in ink of all books. The Hogarth Press hardcover
1923réf. 050343Toronto ON Canada: Thomas Allen 1923. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good /Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 149pp. Stiff card wrapper. Binding sound but mildly cocked. Illustrated DJ pasted to wrapper as published showing shallow loss along top and bottom yapp edges. 2cm loss to tail. Designed and printed for Thomas Allen by Noble Scott Limited Toronto. Lacking the original illustrated card box. Peel 2858. Thomas Allen paperback
1982réf. 37038E. J. Brill. Very Good. Softcover. Vey Minor shelfwear to wraps; 2 Volume Set; 444 pages . 1982. 9004064095 . E. J. Brill paperback
1889réf. 16220B. G. Teubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Vols I IV V have been rebound in red boards with dark red spine. Black lettering to spines. Pages tanned. Light pencil to a few pages. Vols. 1 & 2 have scholars' bookplate to inner covers. Vol. 3 has edgewear to corners with light chipping to cloth at corners. Vol 2 has edgeworn corners with light chipping to edges of boards.; Text in Ancient Greek; Preface in Latin. Mixed set: Vol. I: 1922 L 361 pp; Vol. II: 1889 cxxii 678 pp; Vol. III: 1893 xxiv 431 pp; Vol. IV: 1904 lvi 552 pp; Vol. V: 1904 251 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 1-5; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . 1889. B. G. Teubner hardcover
réf. 156710Cambridge CUP 1965. 2 volumes: L264; V719 p. Cloth. 24 cm Colour of the back fading some scratches on the backcover of the first and frontcover of the second volume Introduction text and commentary hardcover
réf. 156711Cambridge CUP 1968. 2 volumes: LX451;V489 p. Cloth. 24 cm Backs fading. A few small and faint spots on the back of volume 1. Volume 1: introduction text and translation. Volume 2: commentary Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover
Gest. Noten. 3 Bde. in einem: [ca. 100] S. 8°. Mod. HLn. Cf. Goovaerts nos. 1329, 1332. Scheurleer, Ned. liedboeken, S. 112. RISM B II, S. 403. Enthält Werke von De Fesch, Colizzi (Teil 1 und 3) und Frischmuth [Teil 2 ]. Teil 3 hat abweichenden Titel.
réf. 32002316Tokyo 1976 Kodansha. White cloth very good folded blue box 310p. 101 tipped in color plates 281 b .w. photos chronology folio vol. 9 of 12 volume set.cloth case a bit faded else bright. FIRST LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 COPIES . . . RARE FIRST NUMBERED & LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES . . . A DELUXE EDITION IN FOLIO FORMAT WITH CLOTH CASES . . Critically acclaimed ceramic research document material. The efforts of all major scholars in the field of Oriental Ceramics from each of the world's best museum collections. . THE SET IS COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES: Vol. 1. Tokyo National Museum 1977 Vol. 2 National Museum of Korea 1976 Vol. 3. Museum Pusat 1977 Vol. 4. Iran Bastan Museum 1978 Vol. 5. British Museum1976 Vol. 6. Victoria & Albert Museum 1976 Intro by John Ayers. Vol. 7. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art 1976 Vol. 8. Musee Guimet 1976 Vol. 9. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Stockholm 1976 Vol.10. Freer Gallery of Art Washington D.C. U.S.A. 1976 Vol.11. Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1978 Vol.12 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1977 . THE BINDING: The work is printed on heavy rag paper uniformly bound in a durable heavy white cloth then encased in a uniform heavy blue cloth clam shell case. . SIZE: The books are all uniformly bound and about the same size: ca. 27 x 37 cm. and are ca. 5.5 cm. thick. The folding blue protective cloth boxes/clamshell cases are 28 x 39.5 cm. . THE CONTENTS: It is an outstanding piece of scholarship. It covers the Chinese Japanese Korean Islamic South-East Asian ceramics and porcelains. It has been praised as the "Best work ever on the subject." . CONTRIBUTORS: Contributors are from among the most recognized and respected scholars on Asian ceramics include: Seizo Hayashi Jan Fontein Wu Tung Julia Meech-Pekarik Marilyn Jenkins John Ayers Sunu Choi Abu Ridho Firouz Bagherzadeh Anne Saurat Masahiko Sato Doug Barrett Laurence Smith R. Whitfield R. Pinder-Wilson Margaret Medley Madeline Paul-David Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt Bo Gyllensvard John Pope Josephine E. Knapp Esin Atil et al. . THE LANGUAGES: The work has captions both Chinese and English text in English & Japanese. . By and large an impressive work with the highest quality polychrome plates careful descriptions & identification for each piece. An essential reference resource now considered the standard and most reliable single reference on the subject. . EDITION: The FIRST EDITION was published in two editions: First Numbered Edition of 300 copies has a hand numbered number on the verso of the title page with limitation statement. . The FIRST TRADE EDITION was printed in an edition of 2000 copies and has a colophon at the back size is identical. Each is 26 x 37 cm. the blue clam shell case is 28 x 39.5 cm. These are folio size volumes. . Volume Numbers: !! EDITION VARIANCE: This being the First Edition not all volumes of the second or "Trade" Edition match with the same volume numbers. !!! Please use caution when ordering the First Edition volumes. Please check with us as we may have other editions of these volumes in stock. Please confirm the title matches what you are ordering as well as the volume number. . EXTRA SHIPPING PACKING AND HANDLING FEES APPLY: Each volume is large and heavy extra fees apply on all shipping. International shipping will be by Federal Express or by registered/insured air mail with signature required at our digressions. . BIBLIOGRAPHY: Arntzen p.358 . unknown
réf. 32002315Tokyo 1976 Kodansha. White cloth very good blue cloth box 104 tipped in color 378 b.w. photo plates chronology 323p. notes vol. 2 of 12 only box bit faded else bright copy. FIRST LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 COPIES . . . RARE FIRST NUMBERED & LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES . . . A DELUXE EDITION IN FOLIO FORMAT WITH CLOTH CASES . . Critically acclaimed ceramic research document material. The efforts of all major scholars in the field of Oriental Ceramics from each of the world's best museum collections. . THE SET IS COMPLETE IN 12 VOLUMES: Vol. 1. Tokyo National Museum 1977 Vol. 2 National Museum of Korea 1976 Vol. 3. Museum Pusat 1977 Vol. 4. Iran Bastan Museum 1978 Vol. 5. British Museum1976 Vol. 6. Victoria & Albert Museum 1976 Intro by John Ayers. Vol. 7. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art 1976 Vol. 8. Musee Guimet 1976 Vol. 9. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Stockholm 1976 Vol.10. Freer Gallery of Art Washington D.C. U.S.A. 1976 Vol.11. Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1978 Vol.12 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1977 . THE BINDING: The work is printed on heavy rag paper uniformly bound in a durable heavy white cloth then encased in a uniform heavy blue cloth clam shell case. . SIZE: The books are all uniformly bound and about the same size: ca. 27 x 37 cm. and are ca. 5.5 cm. thick. The folding blue protective cloth boxes/clamshell cases are 28 x 39.5 cm. . THE CONTENTS: It is an outstanding piece of scholarship. It covers the Chinese Japanese Korean Islamic South-East Asian ceramics and porcelains. It has been praised as the "Best work ever on the subject." . CONTRIBUTORS: Contributors are from among the most recognized and respected scholars on Asian ceramics include: Seizo Hayashi Jan Fontein Wu Tung Julia Meech-Pekarik Marilyn Jenkins John Ayers Sunu Choi Abu Ridho Firouz Bagherzadeh Anne Saurat Masahiko Sato Doug Barrett Laurence Smith R. Whitfield R. Pinder-Wilson Margaret Medley Madeline Paul-David Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt Bo Gyllensvard John Pope Josephine E. Knapp Esin Atil et al. . THE LANGUAGES: The work has captions both Chinese and English text in English & Japanese. . By and large an impressive work with the highest quality polychrome plates careful descriptions & identification for each piece. An essential reference resource now considered the standard and most reliable single reference on the subject. . EDITION: The FIRST EDITION was published in two editions: First Numbered Edition of 300 copies has a hand numbered number on the verso of the title page with limitation statement. . The FIRST TRADE EDITION was printed in an edition of 2000 copies and has a colophon at the back size is identical. Each is 26 x 37 cm. the blue clam shell case is 28 x 39.5 cm. These are folio size volumes. . Volume Numbers: !! EDITION VARIANCE: This being the First Edition not all volumes of the second or "Trade" Edition match with the same volume numbers. !!! Please use caution when ordering the First Edition volumes. Please check with us as we may have other editions of these volumes in stock. Please confirm the title matches what you are ordering as well as the volume number. . EXTRA SHIPPING PACKING AND HANDLING FEES APPLY: Each volume is large and heavy extra fees apply on all shipping. International shipping will be by Federal Express or by registered/insured air mail with signature required at our digressions. . BIBLIOGRAPHY: Arntzen p.358 . unknown
1801réf. 8321Printed for G. and J. Robinson No. 25 Pater-noster Row 1801. 2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition on laid paper two early nineteenth signatures on titles later signature on blank preliminary of both volumes; handsomely bound in early nineteenth century full tree calf sides with decorative floral frame border in gilt backs gilt extra second and fourth compartments with red and green leather labels lettered and tooled in gilt all other compartments ruled with Greek key and floral rolls enclosing a gilt star device doublures tooled in gilt and blind a clean crisp and most attractive copy. Dedicated to Warren Hastings late Governor General of Bengal Hamilton's first novel appeared in 1796 to considerable acclaim. It satirises society through the device of Oriental letters on the model of works by Montesquieu and Goldsmith its theme being that women also can be both strong and able. The Preface based partly on her brother's experiences in India is both extensive and erudite. Elizabeth Hamilton 1758-1816 Irish novelist essayist and poet. Born in Belfast she moved as a child to Stirling later to London and finally to Edinburgh in 1804. She directed all her works to her own sex whose qualities of mind she admired and promoted. She was praised by Maria Edgeworth and famously by Jane Austen who was pleased that such 'a respectable writer' had read Sense and Sensibility. Block p.96; Todd p.147. See CBEL III p.398. Printed for G. and J. Robinson, No. 25 Pater-noster Row, hardcover
1885réf. 18848Calmann-Levy Paris 1885. Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus with pictorial and printed titles 15 fine full-page coloured illustrations and very numerous illustrations in monochrome in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary brown half morocco BY H WOOD marbled boards back with five raised bands second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt gilt top marbled endpapers heightened with gilt original wrappers printed in red and black preserved corners very lightly frayed else a most attractive crisp clean copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. This splendid copy was presented as a prize in the Grand Concours Annual of the Societe Nationale des Professeurs de Francais. It was awarded in December 1890 to J W Blagden of Dulwich College.The society's fine presentation bookplate completed in MS and with blind-embossed stamp is tipped to front paste-down. Calmann-Levy, Paris, hardcover
2 Bde. Gr.-4°. OLn mit goldgepr. Rückentiteln. Rücken beschabt und oben/unten gering schadhaft. Inhalt leicht fingerfleckig und gelegentlich mit einigen Bleistift-Ansterichungen Erstausgaben der Bearbeitungen der 4 Sinfonien. Alle Ausgaben mit Wasserzeichen. 1. und 2. Sinfonie: C.G.R. und drei sechseckige Sterne und Zahl 6. 3. Sinfonie: drei sechseckige Sterne und Zahl 8, 4. Sinfonie: C.G.R., Kleeblatt und Zahl 8.
1927réf. 5591First Russian edition. Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941 was dubbed the 'American Dostoevsky' in one contemporary Russian review. His novels were popular in Soviet Russia and the first book the short story cycle 'Winesburg Ohio' which was published in 1924 marked the beginning of his significant popularity in the 1920s. The translator of the novel Mark Volosov 1895-1941 had an extraordinary life. He fought on the front lines during World War I was taken prisoner escaped to Norway and eventually made his way to the USA. After spending several years at sea he returned to his homeland where he became a translator from English rendering the works of American writers such as T.S. Stribling Eugene O'Neill Upton Sinclair Herbert Kemp and Erskine Caldwell into Russian. At the onset of World War II he joined the front lines and served in the 'the writers' company' alongside the futurist Alexander Chachikov and the Jewish poet Aron Kushnirov. Unfortunately he disappeared without a trace soon after. Libman # 1011. OCLC locates only one copy of this edition: in the Newberry Library in Chicago. Mysl’ paperback
1971réf. 5590The book contains the first Russian publications of Saul Bellow 'Looking for Mr. Green' Philip Roth 'You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings' published the same year as his first Russian book and Joyce Carol Oates 'Stigmata'. It also includes the first book publication of 'Cutting Edge' by James Purdy. Additionally it features 'The Doctor's Wife' from the collected stories 'Pigeon Feathers' by John Updike 'The Sucker' by Carson McCullers 'Franny' by J.D. Salinger the essay 'Grand' 1964 by Tennessee Williams 'Mr. Acarius' by William Faulkner 'The Golden Age' by John Cheever excerpts from 'Flood' by Robert Penn Warren 'The Madeline Wherry Case' by John O'Hara 'The Dead Gook' by Norman Mailer 'Take Pity' by Bernard Malamud 'Sunday Allergy' by James Jones and 'Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone' by James Baldwin. Libman # 937. OCLC locates three copies of this edition: in the Ohio State University Library the University of North Carolina Library and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden. Progress hardcover
1929réf. 158516March 16 1929. Small folio 2 pages carbon. An agreement between A.C. McClurg and Grosset & Dunlap for the reprinting of Edgar Rice Burroughs' book "The Eternal Lover" along with two other authors. Signed by Joseph E. Bray for McClurg and F.H. Bucklin for Grosset & Dunlap. Not signed by ERB. unknown
1929réf. 158516March 16 1929. Small folio 2 pages carbon. An agreement between A.C. McClurg and Grosset & Dunlap for the reprinting of Edgar Rice Burroughs' book "The Eternal Lover" along with two other authors. Signed by Joseph E. Bray for McClurg and F.H. Bucklin for Grosset & Dunlap. Not signed by ERB. unknown books
1922réf. 40038New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publisher 1922. First US edition first printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Published January 1922" printed on the copyright page. Near fine in near fine dust jacket showing just a hint of toning. A handsome copy. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher hardcover
