1995ref. 52881ABMünchen, Callwey, 1995. 31 cm. 184 S., zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. Pp., OU. Sehr guter Zust., sauber erhalten.
ref. 10087BBBerlin, Propyläen-Verlag. 12 20 cm. Hardcover, 2 Bde in einem Schuber sehr guter, gebrauchter Zustand, Goldprägung
1949ref. 6135Esslingen, Bechtle, 1949. 8°, 187 Seiten. mit 16 Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Orig.Leinen mit Goldprägung und OSU.
1900ref. 151897Stuttgart, 1900. M. Portr.-Front., 3 Faks. u. mehr. Abb. 192 S. Roter OLwdbd. m. goldgepr. Rücken (etwas verblichen)- u. Deckeltitel sowie Rsign. Einbd. bestoßen u. etwas fleckig.Teils gebräunt. St. a. Tit. Klammerheftung teils angerostet (sichtbar). Gebräunt. Unbeschn. Ex.
1972ref. 217233New York: Limited Editions Club 1972. First edition thus. Harcover. 502 pages. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies printed according to the typographic plan of Bram De Does. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen and selected by J. Rives Childs. Features illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. A fine copy in cloth boards in very good tissue dust jacket with some minor wear and in a very near fine slipcase and with laid in monthly newsletter. Signed by Rene Ben Sussan on the colophon page. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1961ref. 012944Los Angeles: Hollyway House 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine/Slipcase. Bill Edwards Monte Rogers. Vintage Paperback. HH 103 & 104. Beautiful Unread Stated First Printing of this original illustrated edition. November 1961 $.75 Cover Price on each volume and $1.50 price on the "2 Volume Book-Kase Edition". Cover art by Bill Edwards. Interior illustrations by Morte Rogers. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. A few rubs here and there on edges. Fresh and bright with no chipping creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved. Illustrated cardboard slipcase has one short edge of the top lid separated. Wear to edges and corners. Small ".50" in ink on front panel. Still sharp and complete and uncommon in any condition. A gorgeous collectable copy and quite uncommon in such nice condition and with the box. Hollyway House unknown books
1976ref. 150662Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Four vintage color studio still photographs for the US release of the 1976 Italian film. With a stamp noting production No. 77-502 on the bottom right corner of the recto and the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. A dramatization of the later years of notorious libertine Giacomo Casanova Donald Sutherland whose innumerable erotic encounters gain him infamy but gradually eat away at his life's meaning. Shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1955ref. 54997Paris: Gibert Jeune Libraire d'Amateurs 1955. Near fine. Lavish French limited edition set of Casanova's infamous memoirs featuring elegant and erotic illustrations. Italian artist Brunelleschi moved to fin-de-siècle Paris where he worked as an artist illustrator and fashion designer. He designed sets and costumes for Folies Bergère in the 1920s including for Josephine Baker and for the Scala in Milan and the Roxy Theater in New York; according to Jane Merrill "his style was opulent yet humorous and light" 152. Among his known specialties was 18th-century Venetian styles and "refined coloring" both on their best display in this work. 2 volumes 10.5'' x 8'' each. Original cream pictorial wrappers with French flaps. In original cream paper slipcase. Illustrated by Brunelleschi with 32 full-page color plates and 79 black-and-white in-text images. 4 346 4; 4 338 6 pages. One of 3000 copies. Slipcase with moderate wear and bumping still intact. Wrappers with only light soil. Gibert Jeune Libraire d'Amateurs unknown books
2000ref. 46126New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed first printing of this retelling of a classic Chinese folktale about a hunter who sacrifices everything for his village. Ed Young entered the world of illustration as a commercial artist and this background in compelling visual storytelling is evident in all his books. Over his long career he has earned two Caldecott Honors and two nominations for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped $16.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Signed by Young in English and Chinese to title page. Jacket spine with a bit of sunning. Sharp and bright. Atheneum Books for Young Readers unknown books
1929ref. 41540New York: Knopf 1929. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. Early Knopf Pocket Book edition in the lovely and uncommon Art Deco jacket of Casanova's account of his bold midnight escape from solitary confinement in 1750s Venice. 6.75'' x 4.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped $1 illustrated dust jacket. 215 1 pages. Jacket with sunning to spine and margins large chip at top of front panel and other edgewear. Otherwise a sound clean copy. Knopf unknown books
2015ref. 144272Springer New York 2015. Hardcover. Like New. A. Parker's Books Offering antique books vintage books and rare books for over 43 years View our other listings: A.Parker's Books Eferl Robert and Emilio Casanova eds. Mouse Models of Cancer: Methods and Protocols Methods in Molecular Biology 1267 New York: Humana Press 2015. 4to. 7 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches 463 pp. Green hardcover with black and white titles no dust jacket as issued. Numerous illustrations and photographs. PH E2 V. Springer New York hardcover books
1936ref. 63482Toluca Mexico: Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios 1936. 8vo 19 3 leaves; original pictorial red wrappers worn and with a hole not affecting any letterpress on the back wrapper; text toned; good or better. With an inscription from the poet dated November 1936. Noé de la Flor Casanova 1904-1986 was a Mexican lawyer cantautor writer poet and politician who served for four years as Governor of Tabasco from 1943-46 before being removed from office following a scandal. Mexico National Library Berkeley Santa Barbara SUNY Trinity Texas Missouri Pittsburgh and Northwestern State University in Louisiana in OCLC. [Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios] unknown books
1894ref. 9032699N.p.: Privately Printed 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. One of 1000 copies. Translated with introduction by Machen. Bound in publisher's original quarter cream cloth with gray boards and spines stamped in gilt. Text blocks are bright and clean with minimal sunning along edges. Books have sunning to spines wear to corners minor wear along some edges. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Privately Printed hardcover books
1929ref. UCASMEM00drpModern Library 1929. Very Good. Casanova Jacques. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. Boyd Madeleine. NY: Modern Library 1929. 492pp. 8vo. Red cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners. Modern Library hardcover books
1940ref. 018436Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club 1940. Hardcover. Variable foxing to the endpapers. Very Good or better in two Very Good slipcases. Eight tall octavo 6-1/2" x 11-3/8" volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #845 of 1500 issued unsigned. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1940ref. 017658Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club 1940. Hardcover. Fine in two Fine slipcases. Eight tall octavo 6-1/2" x 11-3/8" volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #509 of 1500 issued unsigned. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1940ref. 017211Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club 1940. Hardcover. Small university bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. Near Fine in two slipcases one Near Fine the other would be but for a closed split at one top edge. Eight tall octavo 6-1/2" x 11-3/8" volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of this classic of erotica. Copy #281 of 1500 copies issued unsigned. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1972ref. 016607Haarlem Holland: Limited Editions Club 1972. Original Art. Fine. Rene Ben Sussan. The complete publisher's archive of 16 ORIGINAL watercolors some mildly erotic in theme and 17 ORIGINAL line drawings by Rene Ben Sussan used for the book. The watercolors are 5" x 8" on 7-3/4" x 11-1/4" paper with the line drawings on smaller various sized sheets. All are lettered in the upper corner in red ink with pencil annotations below the image. Housed in a paper folder from the publisher. Accompanied by an out-of-series copy of the book SIGNED by the artist that was bound upside down. Rene Ben Sussan was active from the 1920s to the 1960s and illustrated many books including 8 for the Limited Editions Club alone. [Limited Editions Club] unknown books
1972ref. 011945Haarlem Holland: Limited Editions Club 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and just about Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto 7-7/8" x 12" bound in cream-toned buckram printed in crimson with an allover flower-and-leaf pattern and a paper spine label; 560 pages. Translated by Arthur Machen; selected and annotated by J. Rives Childs. Copy #887 of 1500 copies illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan with 16 full-page color plates and 16 in-line text drawings. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The previous eight-volume edition done by the club was not illustrated. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1940ref. 130701940. CASANOVA JACQUES. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798. New York: Limited Editions Club 1940. 8 vols. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Almost imperceptible fading of the spines else fine and fresh. Without the two slipcases. One of 1500 numbered copies printed by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh the printing supervised by Francis Meynell. Translated by Arthur Machen and with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. unknown books
1925ref. 25022Aventuros 1925. 1/2 morocco. Near Fine. Rockwell Kent. The 1925 limited edition. #8 OF THE FIRST 150 COPIES WITHIN A LARGER LIMITATION OF 1000 COPIES BOUND IN A SUMPTUOUS DEEP-RED HALF-MOROCCO WITH WONDERFUL GILT-TOOLING ALONG THE SPINES. Complete in 12 octavo volumes with top-edges gilt. All 12 volumes bright clean and Near Fine. "Translated into English by Arthur Machen with an Introduction by Arthur Symons a new Preface by the translator and twelve drawings by Rockwell Kent". Additionally stated along the limitation page: "The Type Used is Derived from a Fifteenth Century Italian Handwrought Face and the Paper Has Been Specially Made and Watermarked to Reproduce an Early Italian Handmade Paper Aventuros unknown books
2000ref. 601191New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Ed Young. Quarto. Light sunning at the top of front board near fine in a near fine dust jacket with sunning on the spine and front panel. Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover books
1994ref. 322467Edison New Jersey: Castle Books 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Castle Books hardcover books
1995ref. 103523Dallas Texas: Baskerville Publishers Inc 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Translated and edited by Connie Mandracchia DeCaro. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Attached inside front cover is the Renata Tebaldi Soprano CD. Baskerville Publishers, Inc hardcover books
1995ref. 178298Coral Gables: North-South Center University of Miami 1995. Paperback. 105p. text in Spanish playscript very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Cuban Franciscan exiled to New York in 1964. His serio-comic political play. North-South Center, University of Miami paperback books