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1977réf. 41562Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1977. First edition. Softcover. vg to fine. Quarto 11 x 9". VIII 120pp Text LXVIIpp Plates 2pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Scholarly monograph on the small altar of The Temple of Jupiter Roman Heliopolis a colossal temple dedicated to the cult of Zeus located in Heliopolis of Roman Phoenicia Baalbeck of modern Lebanon. It was the main building in a huge "Great Court" or "Sanctuary" of a Roman pagan temple complex that still partially stands. The small altar built at the beginning of the first century CE was in the exact center of the court. This work is illustrated with 67 b/w photographic plates. Minor age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers in overall very good interior in fine condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner unknown books
1944réf. 84936New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title: "To Cornelia Cotton / With love from an old pal who wears the 'old shoe tie' / Maribelle Cormack". Soil and spotting to spine and covers with light tanning to spine ends and board edges and foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.50 spine-faded with 1" tear to upper spine fold and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Good. Cormack and Bytovetzski also collaborated on A Recruit for Abe Lincoln and both published non-fiction works. 84936. D. Appleton-Century Company unknown books
1921réf. 435120London: Longmans Green and Co 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Scattered foxing on pages spine darkened spine ends and corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1992réf. 50053Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1992. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 622. Illustrated A fine copy in dj Inscribed by the author to poet & editor Bill Claire: For Bill Claire who gave MacLeish the best introduction he ever had. May 17 1977 Cosmo Club from his dinner companions at June 2 1992 same venue Scott Donaldson" A biography of the noted poet laureate of the US Librarian of Congress. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1969réf. 553789New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Large quarto. 599pp. Remainder mark corners lightly rubbed very good being Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo's copy with his name and date penned on the front fly in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with short tears and neat internal tape repair. Giarraputo was a gay Boston poet who went to Harvard with Frank O'Hara and Robin Blaser. Although he did not become a well-known poet he did teach poetry to the young black community which the mayor of Boston eventually proclaimed a day named in honor of Giarraputo. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
2001réf. 49549Göttingen German: Steidl Publications 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed Tacita Dean 2001 on colophon. 1394/4000. Large quarto. Unpaginated 176pp. including 2 folding pages. Original olive green cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine; housed gray cardboard slipcase with printed label on cover. Blue endpapers. A collection of forty-eight color and one hundred and nine black and white photos found by Tacita Dean in flea markets in America and Europe. Steidl Publications hardcover books
1942réf. 010627Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1942. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Tan cloth covered boards with blue lettering and design to front and spine. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with more than 50 black and white photographs. Map end papers. Edges minimally rubbed. Dust jacket old internal tape mends at spine and assorted other modest edge wear. SCARCE in such lovely condition and with the uncommon dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company Hardcover books
1996réf. 23008New York: Harry N. Abrams 1996. Decorative Cloth. Fine. A pristine copy of the 1996 catalogue raisonne of Paul Cezanne's paintings complete in 2 volumes. Both volumes tight and Fine in their dark pictorial cloth. No dustjackets as issued. Quartos also includes an immaculate copy of the pictorial card slipcase. Volume 1: The Texts; Vol. 2: The Plates. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1975réf. 010201New York: Macmillan Pub Co 1975. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half title page -"To Carl with joy that he is reading Synergetics Buckminster Fuller" . Very Good lacking the dust jacket the white cloth and edges showing toning. xxxii 876 pp. with illustrated end papers. Macmillan Pub Co Hardcover books
1938réf. 317500London: Hamish Hamilton 1938. First edition. Illus with 48 photographs by the author. 415pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. Illus with 48 photographs by the author. 415pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A journey from California to Mexico by Dana & Ginger Lamb in a hand-built boat in the 1930s. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1968réf. 612513Bucuresti: Editura Stiintifica 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Romanian edition of Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Octavo. 365 3pp. Illustrations. Map endpapers. edges of the last few leaves bumped pages a little toned very good or better in a little spine-toned else near fine dust jacket. A scholarly and somewhat unusual collaboration between Mannix a hunter and writer on Africa and Cowley one of the century's great literary critics. A moderately scarce title the Romanian edition is likely rare. Editura Stiintifica hardcover books
1922réf. 414368Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company 1922. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 454pp. Illustrated from photographs. Gilt-stamped blue cloth top edge gilt. Owner's stamp on front pastedown and a random page bookstore label on rear pastedown spine darkened with ends frayed corners worn and bumped a good only copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper. The memoir of Morgenthau a German-Jew's experiences during the Spanish-American War and World War I the Campaigns of 1912 and 1916 his trip to the Holy Land the atrocities of the Armenian people and his opposition to Zionism. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1941réf. 78687Cairo: Faculty of Arts Fouad I University 1941. Paperback. Very Good. 292p. plus 71 plates photos. Original wrapper. 35cm. Moderate chipping and wear on backstrip. Extensive but minor cover stains. Corners slightly curled. This volume contains Hassan's report on work at Giza during the 1931-1932 season. Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University paperback books
1953réf. 565282New York: Random House 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with rubbing mostly at the spine ends. A nice copy of this memoir by a Greenwich Village resident of his addiction to heroin and cocaine from 1910 to the early 1920s. After he overcame his addiction he became a commercial artist. A bright copy of a scarce title. Random House hardcover books
1838réf. 23375New York: Wiley and Putnam 1838. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 4to. xii148pp. Half cloth over paper-covered boards. "A Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language" by the same author preceded this work. Isaac Nordheimer 1809-1842 was a German-Jewish author. After emigrating to America in 1835 he became a professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at the University of New York. His other main work besides contributions to the "Biblical Repository" was "The Philosophy of Ecclesiastes." Heavy age wear staining and chipping on binding. Hinges starting. 2" x 1" of bottom edge of front board missing affecting first 12 pages. Foxing throughout. Binding in poor interior in fair to good condition. Scarce. Bibliographical reference: Singerman 656. Rosenbach 430. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1923réf. 71297Berlin Germany: Verlegt bei Bruno Cassirer 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. 541 495 675 558 643 552 468 604 467 403 and 448 pp. Small quarto sized volumes 24 cm in full grey/brown buckram cloth with lettering and decorative designs stamped on spines. All volumes solid and squarely bound unmarked throughout. Cloth quite faded including to the stamping to spines and volumes lightly dusted. Minor general shelfwear overall including some scuffing to spine ends. Light foxing and toning throughout. Complete in eleven volumes. Extra shipping charges will apply due to size and weight. The complete works of the great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant in the original German. Band 1 Volume 1: Vorkritische Schriften Band I. Band II: Vorkritische Schriften Band II. Band III: Kritik der Reinen Vernunft. Band IV: Schriften von 1783–1799. Band V: Kritik der Parktischen Vernunft. Erste Einleitung in die Kritik der Urteilskraft. Die Kritik der Urteilskraft. Band VI: Schriften von 1790–1796. Band VII: Die Metaphysik der Sitten: Der Streit der Fakultaten. Band VIII: Anthropologie. Fortschritte der Metaphysik: Vorlesungen Kants Uber Padagogik. Vorlesungen Kants Uber Logik. Band IX: Briefe von und an Kant. Erster Teil: 1749–1789. Band X: Briefe von und an Kant. Zweiter Teil: 1790–1803. Band XI: Kants Leben und Lehre. Verlegt bei Bruno Cassirer hardcover books
1946réf. 84Providence: Buffalo Book Company 1946. First Edition. 8vo pp. 303. Smith's first book preceded only by the novel's appearance as a three-part serial in Amazing Stories magazine. Just 500 copies were published; the Hadley 1947 edition is a reprint. Slightly cocked with some soiling and rubbing at the extremities very good in a bright dust jacket with rubbing small chips splits and tape reinforcements to the rear flap fold. Although earlier fiction had touched the edges of what would become space opera The Skylark of Space is the modern template-the first significant development in science fiction since Wells establishing the genre's foundational elements: the vast interstellar setting despotic alien civilizations and ongoing conflict with technologically advanced enemies. Its descendants include Asimov's Foundation Herbert's Dune Roddenberry's Star Trek and Lucas' Star Wars. You should read this because every space opera you have ever loved begins here. Buffalo Book Company unknown books
1873réf. 43745Chalon-sur-Saône; Paris: J. Dejussieu; Maisonneuve et Cie 1873. First edition. Hardcover. g to g. Quarto 10 1/4 x 7". 6 285 3pp Vol. 1; 2 ii 317 1pp Vol. 2. Uncut. Modern olive cloth with gold lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Publisher's logo to each title. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 30 plates mostly folded this third series of Chabas' "Mélanges Égyptologiques" comprises the latest studies on Egyptology. Some articles written in collaboration with Egyptologists Samuel Birch Charles Wycliffe Goodwin Rev. P. J. de Horrack and Eugène Lefébure. Minor shelfwear to binding. Ex-library copy with bookplate on inside of front cover reference number at rear and stamp at upper and lower paper edges. Some foxing and age-toning to very first leaves. Previous owner's name at upper margin of the first two title pages. Titles slightly brittling along edges. Sporadic annotations in pencil throughout easily erasable. Text in French. Binding and interior in overall good to good condition. About the author: François Joseph Chabas 1817-1882 was a French Egyptologist who came from a modest background studied at Chalon and became a wine merchant. Self-taught Chabas learned Latin Greek and other languages. Interested in anthropology he turned to study Old Egyptian languages. Chabas was a member of several learned societies and later president of the Conseil departemental of Saône-et-Loire. Between 1876 and 1880 he edited the journal "L'Égyptologie." His works have contributed much to elucidate the history of the invasion and repulsion of the Hyksos in Egypt. Chabas was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865. From Wikipedia. J. Dejussieu; Maisonneuve et Cie hardcover books
1924réf. 61389Lutherville MD: Chesacroft Kennels 1924. First edition apparently the first book devoted solely to the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. 12mo. 31 pp. Illus. from photos; 3-pages of show records from Chesacroft dogs 1922-1923. Not in Jones "Bibliography of the Dog" listing only two titles on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever the earlier from 1933. OCLC locates one copy Mariners Museum Newport News VA. Very good copy of a rare book. Original decorated brown wrappers stapled. #8436. Chesacroft Kennels unknown books
1941réf. 92796New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. illustrations some in color and all by Poncins xi 339p. plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Clear plastic acetate jacket and red card slipcase with a title label on the front panel. 22 cm. The jacket has modest damage at base of backstrip and some general wrinkling. The slipcase is sound with modest soiling and wear including a small heart-shaped waterspot on the back panel. The book is fresh and clean and even has the original unfaded and only minimally worn red ribbon marker. Copy No. 90 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip laid in the book explains that the book is not signed because Poncins having ". joined the colors of his country France disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris." The slip promised that "in the event of his survival and return to the United States arrangements will be made upon request to his publishers . for him to sign this numbered copy of KABLOONA." In fact Poncins had survived and this copy and an unknown but apparently modest number of other copies of the limited edition were signed by Poncins. The signature on the limitation page is by "Eskimo Mike" de Poncins -- Mike being the name by which he was known among the Inuit. All in all a wonderful copy of an important book about the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit people. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
réf. 220279Wilmington Delaware: Privately Printed 1972. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and boards. The endpapers are a map of the Vosso River Western Norway. Some fading along top edge of covers. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Privately printed and second in the series of books on Salmon fishing done by Sportsman Alfred Bissell in a very limited edition This copy is inscribed on the half-title "For my brother John who may discover from these pages why we pursue the Atlantic salmon year after year and why it is rated one of the greatest game fish in the world. Affectionately Chas. L. Reese Jr." Much salmon fishing in Norway at "Oddsbu" a fishing lodge on the picturesque Voss near Bolstadøyri whose principal revenue comes from cutting hay and renting river rights to sportsmen and where the party fished on five beats and caught fish weighing up to 29 pounds: included are interesting Norway photos. There was also an abortive Salmon trip to Siberia. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 5 (Privately Printed) unknown books
