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1858Best.-Nr. 1302020Venedig, G. Antonelli, 1846 (auf d. Einbd: 1847) - 1854 (auf d. Einbd: 1858). Zus. über 3250 Sp. m. zahlr. Abb. Bedruckte OPpbde (Einbde bestoßen, beschabt u. fleckig, Bd 1 u. 2: Rücken stärker lädiert u. m. Fehlstellen; Bd 2 u. 3: obere Ecke durchgehend etwas feuchtwellig u. -fleckig; Bd 5: Fehlstelle am Kopf).
1839Best.-Nr. 3622598Venedig, co' Tipi del Gondaliere, 1839. Bildnis Gambas in Holzstich, 26 S., 1 Bl., 794 S. in zweispaltigem Druck, 1 Bl. Dekorativer Halblederband des frühen 20. Jhdts mit floraler Rückenvergoldung und goldgeprägtem RSch. (unbeschnitten, gelegentlich fleckig, leicht gebräunt).
2017Best.-Nr. 2-1720222533Independently published 2017. Paperback. New. 140 pages. Spanish language. 9.00x6.00x0.32 inches. Independently published paperback
1898The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
193868 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of children in winter scene; Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News bits include: Between the Ears, Fellow Travellers in Life, Voices in Talk Group, An Undivorceable Couple, Not at all a simple question. Editorials include Trade Agreements, Is Missionary Effort Being Discredited, and Keeping the Home Fires Burning - with photo-portrait of Chester D. Stovel, August 11, 1870 - December 19, 1937, the last of three brothers who visioned a national magazine when they started this magazine as a four-page supplement to the weekly press nearly forty years ago; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- photo-illustrated article (part 1) on the 'lone wolf' who put modern Turkey on the map; The Lost Tunes (short story); Killer's Crossing (short story); Nothing to Regret (short story); Photographing Big Game in Africa - photo-illustrated article by Vera Batley; Hazard and High Water (short story); The Murder on the Links (part IV/4 of this Agatha Christie story); Downhill Control - skiing article with photos, including ski-jumper Arne Finsberg in flight; The Grandfather Clock (short story); Nice one-page ad for the 1938 Pontiac; Fascinating one-page Ovaltine ad shows sleep research; Movie news with photos of Kay Francis, Billie Burke, Ann Sheridan, and more; Lux soap ad includes photo of Madeleine Carroll; Vintage two-page photo ad says "New Bread Diet Takes Off Pounds"; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Gardens of Romance; Canada Building at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Scotland is featured in a Government of Canada ad; Photo of horse "Miss Amner" owned by Mrs. Earle Spafford of Knowlton, Quebec; Personal care article for men; Cake baking article; Heinz one-page ad says 'Banish Kitchen Blues'; World Sayings; Attractive colour 1938 Ford ad inside back cover features beige and blue cars; Colour Old Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1917Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1916Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1907Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 621174Verschiedene Druckorte u. Verlage. Leder d. Zeit mit 2 Rückenschildern "Voltaire 53" u. "Mélanges" (berieben u. bestoßen, Rücken am Kopf mit großer Fehlstelle). [3 Warenabbildungen]
18561st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. [xviii], 252 pages ; 18 cm. In French. Title in English is, Vocabulary: Basque Words Translated In French. The first exclusively French-Basque dictionary ever published. SUBJECT (S) : Basque language -- Dialects -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Spine Rebacked. Paper Browning. Some damp stains. Oveall Good condition. (FR-2-15)
1973Best.-Nr. 101318Norwalk Connecticut and New York April 20th 1973 through March 21 1978. 1973 to 1978. 1973 to 1978. Very good. - A total of three letters the first two of which are penned by the American author Faith Baldwin and are addressed to her friend Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger. The first is a 3-page letter consisting of over 270 words penned by Faith Baldwin on three sides of two sheets of her 7-3/4 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide light blue personal stationery. In her letter dated April 20 1973 Baldwin writes to the Rabbi & Mrs. Metzger "How lovely of you to remember me! I hope you had a Joyous Passover - and that you're happy in Blue River." She mentions having had cataract surgery back in 1970 and that "I went back to work in April 1971. That NOVEL One More Time was published in 72 & there will be one this coming July - No Bed of Roses - & I just finished one for the Winter of 1974!" That novel "Time and the Hour" was published on January 1 1974. She mentions that her vision is all right but that she tires easily and finds reading hard. She mentions that "The old books are now coming out in uniform paper backs Warner Paperback Library - since Jan 72 - one a month . I meant to tell you a very old book of mine came out in Israel." She closes by wishing them a lovely spring. Signed "Faith". Folded for mailing else fine with the original mailing envelope. The second is a one-and-a-half page letter consisting of over 105 words penned on both sides of her 7-3/4 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide light blue personal stationery. In her letter dated Dec. 21 1974 Faith Baldwin writes to Rabbi & Mrs. Metzger opening her letter with pleasantries ".see Rabbi's a glutton for work whereas I spent 73 trying to survive. - Why - I finished a book in March." Her novel "New Girl in Town" was published on January 1 1975. She concludes with "I have run out of paper good pens energy mine stamps almost and of course patience." Signed "Faith / Any Variety of". Folded for mailing else near fine with the original mailing envelope. Together with: An Autograph letter signed by the last Rabbi of Nuremberg Rabbi Kurtz L. Metzger to Faith Baldwin's daughter. Over 350 words penned on both sides of his personal 10-7/8 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide stationery. Responding to a brief mailgram he received from Hervey on March 19th informing him of her mother Faith Baldwin's death Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger writes a lengthy consoling letter dated March 21 1978: "Though it is always bitter and painful to loose sic a dear one and especially a mother such as yours I do hope that after the initial experience of her passing away a feeling of gratitude will replace your emotions of sorrow. For the last two years must have been for your mother a horrible period of frustration since she was no longer able to live a life of independence." He describes how she has been relieved of her pain and frustration at "no longer being able to use her God-given gift of being productive in the literary field in which she has secured for herself the immortality of an extremely beloved and highly appreciated author." He hopes that although her mother has passed they will stay in touch "and continue a relationship which I enjoyed with your mother so much over the years." Signed "Kurt". Folded for mailing with a short tear along the left edge and offsetting near the middle. Very good with the original mailgram from Hervey. The American author of romance novels and other fiction Faith Baldwin 1893-1978 often wrote of women juggling careers and family enabling working women of all ages to identify with her characters. As a youth Baldwin lived for two years in Europe living in Dresden with one of her mother's close friends while the First World War was raging. She learned German and went to cooking school before returning to the U.S. in 1916. She began working for the War Camp Community Service where she met her future husband. A friend of Faith Baldwin Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger 1909-1992 was born in Nuremberg and was the Rabbi of Landau from 1935 to 1938. He was arrested while attending the Jewish Theological Seminary and incarcerated at the Buchenwald concentration camp for months but eventually released to serve as the Rabbi of Nuremberg. Metzger immigrated to the United States in 1940 serving as Rabbi of Temple Beth El in Glen Falls New York. The last Rabbi of Nuremberg he returned to visit Germany several times after he was and was named the Honorary Rabbi of his former native town of Nuremberg in 1977. Norwalk, Connecticut and New York, April 20th 1973 through March 21, 1978. [1973 to 1978]. paperback
18538vo., FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with almost 100 wood-engravings from drawings by Foster in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary full crushed green morocco, sides blocked with quadruple gilt frame borders, green back gilt extra with five raised bands, gilt doublures to a floral pattern, gilt edges, BY OLDFIELD, very slightly rubbed but a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
1998Best.-Nr. 34029AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE MODERN GREEK FICTION OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD 1914-1939 A series of 8 luxurious clothbound volumes 25 cm more than 3500 pages in total. Covers all important Greek writers from 1914 to 1939. With an introduction by P. Moullas. ISBN: 960-7210-16-6 set. . . =================================================== IMPORTANT: The shipping cost in not included in the price. You will have to approve it at confirmation of the order. Socole - Kouledake hardcover
1820Best.-Nr. 7617London: Published by W. Perks 1820. SOLE EDITION 12mo pp. 24 hand-coloured frontispiece. Partly unopened and stitched as issued in original blue paper wrappers front wrapper printed in black. A little light soiling slight creasing to title-page. Wrappers split at spine. A scarce little collection of verse mostly in address-and-answer format between ‘Valentine’ and various types: faithless lover gentleman miser coquette old batchelor etc. Various catalogues guess a date between 1798 and 1830 but BBTI puts the publisher’s active period at 1820-1826 and the printer George Smeeton at 139 St Martin’s Lane between 1808 and 1839. The Yale catalogue attributes the frontispiece to Isaac Cruikshank. Published by W. Perks unknown
1892Best.-Nr. 1321725Paris, Hetzel & Quantin, 1886 - 1892. Zus. über 2200 S. OHlwdbde (Exlibris a. Spiegeln).
1996Best.-Nr. 33990Η μεταπολεμική Ï€ÎµÎ¶Î¿Î³Ïαφία Α΄- Η΄ An Anthology of the Modern Greek Fiction - From WW I to the 1967 Dictatorship Third edition. A series of 8 luxurious clothbound volumes 25 cm more than 3500 pages in total. Covers all important Greek writers from 1914 to 1939. ISBN set: 960-7210-14-Χ. . . =================================================== IMPORTANT: The shipping cost in not included in the price. You will have to approve it at confirmation of the order. Socole - Kouledaki hardcover
First edition of this 15th-century romance of chivalry, one of the masterpieces of Catalan literature. 8vo. Attractively bound in half vellum and marbled boards by Subirana (signed). Spine gilt in six compartments, leather spine label. First quire (8 leaves) printed on cheaper paper (as always). Else near fine. Rare. Palau 66426.
1909Best.-Nr. 218019Heidelberg, Winter, 1909-78. Lwd., Hlwd. u. Hldr. Rücken teils etwas fleckig. Kanten teils beschabt. Einige Jgg. m. Rsign. u./oder St. a. Tit.
Best.-Nr. 2094Suigetsukai. Hardcover. Very good book in a very good slipcase. No dust jacket issued. Red cloth covers. There is also a 30 page trade size softcover book included. There is no English in the book the text is all Japanese. We ask someone who speaks Japanese and they said they gave us this title as a maybe. There is a fold-out chart about ikebana that goes from the year 700 to the 20th century. We couldn't find a date but it maybe from the 1960s or so. The softcover is dated 1990. ; Photographs drawings.; 181 30 pages . Suigetsukai hardcover
1821Best.-Nr. 1099106Paris, J. L. J. Brière, 1821. Spätere Hldrbde (Einbde beschabt, Titelbl. verstempelt, 12 Bde m. durchgehenden Nässespuren, die Bde 16 u. 17 dadurch mit Pilzbefall).
1710In-8°; pp. (14), frontespizio stampato in rosso e nero, con fregio xilografico. Legatura in cartonato. Romanzo francese basato sulla materia delle saga di Apollonio di Tiro, che ebbe una straordinaria popolarità sia nei secoli che in molti linguaggi dell’Europa; il mito del viaggio di Apollonio nel Mediterraneo e specialmente in Grecia, passò dai romanzi dell’antica Grecia, attraverso manoscritti latini, nelle letterature europee, in varie traduzioni e forme letterarie, entrando anche a far parte di un’opera di Shakespeare. apollonio grecia greek literature grece siria viaggio romanzo avventura adventure novel romance
190916° br. originale con stampato CINQUEME EDITION e anno di stampa 1910 mentre il front. riporta l'anno, si presume esatto 1909, Prima edizione di questa opera forse la più nota dello scrittore. Lunga dedica autografa dell'Autore all'occhietto.Esemplare perfetto.
Best.-Nr. 9543Relié en un volume in 8, veau marbré de l’époque, tranches marbrées, filets dorés sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné (traces d’usure aux mors, coiffe inférieure absente).
1795Best.-Nr. 1150145Tours, Letourmy et Paris, Berry, an 3 (= 1795). Zus. über 1150 S., 14 Kupfertaf. v. Antoine Borel, darunter die Bildnisse von Mirabeau und seiner Geliebten Sophie Ruffey. Hldrbde d. Zeit m. schlichter Rverg. (etwas berieben, gering braunfl.
1763Best.-Nr. 1315370Genf, et se trouve à Paris, Duchesne, 1761 - 1763. Zus. etwa 800 S. Hpgtbd d. Zeit (Einbd leicht angestaubt u. etwas beschabt, leicht gebräunt u. teilweise etwas fleckig).