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1923réf. 30237HB NODustJacket 1st edition 1ST Printing PUBLISHED Sept 1923 on the copyright page. Title & copyrite pg shows 1923 NF- BK/ VG-CVR NO DUSTJACKET NOJACKET AS-IS Lists thru this Title on Listing pg in front of bk 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 IN. Approx SPINE FADE Black Cloth with Gold Gilt Title & Decoration on Front of Hand Holding Fire & 7 Dancing Figures TINY Rub to Spine & spine edge with tiny chips back cloth cvr Interior Nice tight Clean Light FoX Wear TIGHTLY BOUND 107 PGS new borzoi books Spring 1925 light bumping to the extremities. . No owner signatures bookplates or other marks. Sound binding and secure hinges. An intact presentable 1stprinting of Gibran's most enduring work. Light noticeable wear to the covers. Spine is not creased. Pages are otherwise clean free of markings and fully intact. Page block has darkened. Overall a really nice copy his second work in English after "The Madman"--for several years before it was published in October 1923. Both the author and the world consider this his masterpiece and it has been translated into dozens of languages. "The Prophet" concerns Almustafa "the chosen one" who after exile on an island addresses such universal themes as love joy sorrow pain and time. These short aphorisms functioning as a sort of spiritual poetry have move ALFRED KNOPF , DOUBLEDAY NY, Electrotyped by Vail-Ballou Press, NY, Printed & bound Plimpton Press, MA hardcover
2010réf. MASTER382081IAstoria OR.: Raven Studios. VG/VG- Signed By Both Ursula le Guin & Roger Dorband. Light Wear To DJ Tiny Tear At Upper Spine. Pages Clean Binding Tight. DJ In Mylar Wrap. Pages: 112. 2010. Hardcover. Raven Studios hardcover
1928réf. 32525Chicago: Albert Whitman and Company 1928. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. 6 x 8.25in. 190pp. Publisher's cloth boards with pictorial overlay. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows slight shelf rubbing of the panels several short closed tears along the edges otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. As pictured. Albert Whitman and Company hardcover
réf. 682014 sheets ranging from 2000 x 377 mm. to 670 x 385 mm. the 12 drawings to 567 x 380 mm. the furnace plus the wrapper. All on fine thin paper. Japan: ca. 1855-63. With the first demonstration of steam power in Japan thanks to Commodore Perry’s visit in July of 1853 the feudal domains immediately began to organize the construction of a fleet of large Western-style warships. By the August 1853 arrival in Nagasaki of the Russian Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin who gave a demonstration of a steam engine on his ship the Palladia. Hisashige Tanaka 1799-1881 the founder of the future Toshiba Corporation and the “Thomas Edison of Japan” promptly copied these models and built Japan’s first steam engine. The first steam-powered warship to enter the Japanese navy was the Kanko Maru given by the Dutch government in 1855. Western naval technologies were quickly assimilated; the earliest Japanese steam-powered warships were based on Dutch shipbuilding manuals and with direct assistance from Dutch representatives. In 1863 Japan completed is first domestically built steam warship the Chiyodagata. Following the humiliations at the hands of foreign navies in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 the shogunate began to rely more on French and British warship technologies. The large drawing of the steam engine and its parts is captioned in trans.: “The steamship’s measurements: length is ca. 50 meters width is ca. 11 meters and depth is ca. 7 meters. Steam engine’s structure and the parts described with measurements.” From right to left we see about thirty of the parts of the steam engine often with katakana labels and measurements the latter written in red ink. On the farthest left of this sheet is a remarkable and fine drawing 770 x 380 mm. in brush with wash in various grays yellow and pink of the assembled engine. On the first leaf of the series of 12 numbered sheets of drawings of the naval architecture of the proposed warship a label pasted-on states in trans.: “The 12 sheets of illustrations are copies of red-haired origin of the ship.” These sheets contain hundreds of drawings many heightened with gray wash and many with specific measurements of various aspects of the ship’s design in preparation for construction. Included are numerous depictions of the hull deck bulkheads rudders winches and gears from different viewpoints and of structural and strengthening elements with many manuscript labels in katakana of Dutch terms. There is some worming on the sheets which does touch some drawings and characters but it is not offensive. unknown
1951réf. 44203Norman OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press 1951. Book Club edition. Hardcover in tan textured boards in brownback illus. jacket. VeryGood in good jacket. A biography of colorful texas civil war era. About a Man who became one of the Big Pasture Men of Texas 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 338 pp index bibliography b/w photos b/w illus maps deckled foredge. Univ of Oklahoma Press hardcover
réf. 49535Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1946. Small 8vo.; illustrated cloth covered boards hardcover; 272 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very lightly edge-rubbed boards else very good clean tight copy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1946 unknown
1931réf. B66475London: The Nonesuch Press 1931. Hardcover. Very good. Brown cloth boards octavo illustrated in b&w. Book has mild toning and rubbing to boards and spine binding tight gift plate to front flyleaf from James D. van Trump to the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation otherwise text clean and unmarked toned throughout. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1938réf. B52998Toledo OH: Frank M. Warwick/Standard Printing Co 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by Warwick! Brown cloth boards skinny octavo 161pp. not illustrated. Book has rubbing mild soil and edgewear to boards and spine binding tight text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Frank M. Warwick/Standard Printing Co hardcover
1977réf. 57685New York: New Rivers Press. Near Fine. 1977. First Edition. Paperback. 0912284897 . Drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 100 pages; 1977 New Rivers Press. Oversize paperback in glossy graphic card stock covers. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Tightly bound bright and fresh. No marks. Feels and appears unread. Just a hint of toning to the front cover edges. NF . New Rivers Press paperback
1975réf. 3117769Dublin: Dolman Press Limited. Fine with no dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth in Slipcase. SIGNED limited edition. Copy 134 of 350 printed. Signatories are Anthony Kerrigan Diarmaid O Suilleabhain & Bernard Childs on colophon. Fine in quarter maroon leather and gray boards in matching gray card slipcase with paper title label at spine. Printed on German mould-made rag paper. 87pp. 7" X 9 3/4" Features two Borges stories A statement by Borges as well as poet Robert Graves and an essay and poem on Borges by Anthony Kerrigan. Nicely produced. ; 7" X 9 3/4"; 87 pages . Dolman Press Limited hardcover
1842réf. 14525Fisher Son & Co London 1842. Book Book Hardcover. Very Good. Fisher Son & Co London 1842. Very Good. 3 volumes 4to. Original half-leather; black leather spine with gilt titling; cloth boards embossed and decorated in gilt. Each volume has full-page engraving on title page followed by many half-page views. Tissue guards. 216 steel-engraved plates it total. Block edge gilt.PO's name J Cholmley penned on inside of each cover. Light spotting and damp-staining but an attractive set. Fisher, Son, & Co, London hardcover
1916réf. 25000925Rochester New York: Stetcher Lith. Co 1916. Fair. Wrappers detached with modern tape repair. Light soiling. An illustrated ABC book for early readers published during WWI to promote international friendship and tolerance to little ones. Each letter is paired with a different nation and has an accompanying rhyme and an illustration of a child in a representative costume. It ranges from A for American "A congress of Children We show to you here American first For our Country dear" to Z for Zulu "And now with this Zulu last shown here in turn You'll plainly and surely your Alphabet learn". Note the gentle and the not so gentle racial and cultural stereotypes at play in this book. J for Japan for example reads "Japan's little lady Is Yellow of skin. Korea her playmate To her is akin". Single vol. 6.75" by 7.5" pp. 12 illus. in original illus. wrps. with rounded corners. Stetcher Lith. Co unknown
1951réf. 11790Los Angeles: Equality House 1951. A poem by a white civil rights activist and attorney written in the voice of a black American who recounts the history of slavery lynchings exploitation and struggle for freedom which concludes with his resolution to accept no more: "I know where I'm going - and I know where I'm not going. And listen Boss America I'm not going back to your fields or your kitchens. I'm not going back to the slave compounds; I'm leaving your city ghettoes. Nor am I lying flat as a paving stone on the road for boss money and privilege to roll over in its gilded carriage on the way back to dead years and dead times and dead men. I'm alive America alive and coming alive and marching alive and fighting." The poem is bookended by two glossy plates featuring drawings by William Jennings. The frontispiece depicts a black man about to be lynched while the rear plate portrays a shirtless black man encircled by chains towering above his slave master and a slave ship both stamped with dollar signs. Not much is known about the author Herb Porter although he appears to have been an attorney in Los Angeles. The same year this booklet was published the California Eagle the long-running black newspaper edited by Charlotta Bass published Porter's lengthy article on the McCarran Act's attack on blacks and other minorities. He later wrote an article analyzing the Watts riots for the Los Angeles Free Press. Stapled grey wrappers printed in black rought cut fore edge 5 p. two plates. Faint soiling smudging to wrappers. An uncommon title with only half a dozen copies in OCLC. References: Herb Porter "The McCarran Attack on the Negro People" California Eagle January 25 1951 pgs 1-2; Herb Porter "Attorney Analyzes Causes of Watts Demonstrations" LA Free Press August 20 1965. Equality House unknown
1975réf. 016336Berkhamsted: T& A D Poyser 1975. FIRST EDITION first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full grey-blue cloth-patterned hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine jacket has been price-clipped hint of rubbing. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a EXCELLENT dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. T& A D Poyser Hardcover
1953réf. 1398908London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin Octavo unpaginated. In Good plus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine orange with black lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including few instances of chips to the head/tail edges sunning to the spine and mild soiling. Age toning to the flaps and to the interior. Boards have slight wear including mild sunning to the spine and light edge wear. Text block has moderate wear including age toning to the edges. Previous owner's name to the front end paper and few small marks to the copyright page. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #5. 1398908. FP New Rockville Stock. Gaberbocchus Press Limited hardcover
1960réf. 335161New York: Lon Studios 1960. Magazine. 36p. includes covers 5.25x7 inches illustrated with b&w physique posing pouch photos and homo-erotic art very good digest-size magazine in pictorial wraps. Only six holdings of any issue in this series located in OCLC as of May 2025. Lon Studios unknown
1922réf. 144344WILLIAM HELBURNINC 1922 VOLUMES 1 & 2HARDBACK BOOKS IN VERY GOOD CONDITIONWEAR AT BOTH ENDS OF SPINESSMALL BOOKPLATESHINGES ARE SOLID. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. WILLIAM HELBURN,INC hardcover
1972réf. GHC19-61237-A-0South Windsor CT: Inspiration House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated pages; Signed by both author and illustrator on title page. B&W illustrations. Fading and rubbing on DJ. Faint stains on DJ's front. Light wear on DJ edges. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . Inspiration House hardcover
1927réf. 29878n.p.: "Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society". Very Good. c.1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket shelfwear to bottom edges with some exposure of boards spine lettering and illustration heavily rubbed otherwise a good sound copy. color plates chapter-head drawings Mild erotica originally published in 1898 and best remembered today if at all because of its delirious 1935 film adaptation THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich and Lionel Atwill. The illustrations color frontispiece 9 color plates with tissue-guards intact a title-page drawing and chapter-head line drawings feature lots of nekkid ladies Ms. Tice's specialty and bear captions along the lines of "She smiled with her legs as she spoke with her torso." This is stated on the limitation page to be one of "1250 copies of which 990 are for America." Although one is usually well-advised to take the professed numbers on these vintage-erotica items with a grain of salt what makes this one especially interesting though is that instead of a number written into the blank space below the statement the single word "presentation" is inked; in addition on the half-title page is a 3-inch-tall original drawing of yet another nudie that is SIGNED by Clara Tice. See second scanned image with this listing. Signed by Illustrator . "Privately Printed for The Pierre Louÿs Society" hardcover
1950réf. 30291HBDJ 1950 1ST EDITION THUS MCML on Title PG VG/GOOD AS-IS DJ Small Extremities chips rub wear EDGE TEARS Publisher's Yellow top stain to top edge of text block. 300 pages with a colored frontispiece and 17 additional full-page drawings by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated endpapers Book is sound: clean unmarked undamaged. . Dustjacket with chipping and small tears all around. Rear of DJ is Soiled. Original price was clipped BUT 643 CODE INTACT Green Embossed cloth Gold Gilt on spine Cvr Back of Yellow DJ SMALL CHIP & MENDED TEAR ADS for 6 of kipling's Books end with Captains Courageous Tiger Shere Khan all long Tail & Loud Talk. Bagheera the Black Panther as Cunning as Tabaqui as Bold as the Wild Buffalo & as Wreckless as the Wounded Elephant. Old Baloo the Sleepy Brown Bear who teaches the Wolf's Cubs the Law of the Jungle. Bander-log the Monkey Folk. who Boast & Chatter . Kaa the Black Snake Very Old & Very Cunning Alway HUNGRY. Garden City New York: Double Day & Company, doubleday hardcover
1920réf. 29738London: Seeley Service & Company. Good with no dustjacket. 1920. Hardcover. Marks and defects from being in a college library but else good and clean. Sound. ; Illustrated throughout. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 296 pages . Seeley, Service & Company hardcover
réf. 3111Atlanta: Southern Publications Society Inc. 1956 1st ed. INSCRIBED ffep by author. 128pp. pictorial red cloth tall 8vo: near Very Good in an about Good dj in Brodart poly cover thin faded strip along bottom edges; browning of endpp; else nrVG; dj = torn @ spine ends & corners; few other edge tears but not tattered; else about G For decades John Woodward wrote the "About Dogs" feature in the Atlanta Georgian-American the Atlanta Journal & Atlanta Constitution. This tale of a wire fox terrier pup is charmingly illustrated by Journal cartoonist Lou Erickson. It is inscribed to the Atlanta Constitution columnist Celestine Sibley 1914-99 Woodward's colleague on the Atlanta newspapers. A nice old Atlanta piece. Atlanta: Southern Publications Society, Inc. hardcover
1925réf. 45810New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Knickerbocker Press 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xi 142pp. 4. Dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. The work is a detailed analysis of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's pioneering theories on rhythmic movement-based education methods known as Eurythmics. The work can also be seen basically as a translation/adaptation of Dalcroze's work "Rhythm Music and Education" for an English speaking audience. Binding with some rubbing to extremities. Interior with a period inscription to a previous owner in pen on the front free endpaper. Numerous instances of starting or lossening throughout the book block. Interior front cover reinforced with japan tissue along the gutter. Binding and inteiror in good condition. Protected by modern mylar. G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1940réf. 43748San Francisco: S & G Gump 1940. First edition. Softcover. fine. Large quarto. Brown heavy stock paper portfolio with elaborate debossed gilt designs on the front cover and interior. The work is a finely produced illustrated catalog of Khmer and Thai art for the S&G Gump's luxury home furnishing store in San Francisco now known as Gump's. The portfolio houses a 6 loose leaves containing a total of 24 pages printed on handmade textured paper. The initial leaf of 4 pages includes an illustrated text introduction by store owner A.L. Gump and a list of illustrations. The rest of the pages contain a total of 41 images in b/w of various Thai and Khmer Buddhist sculptures and statues. Portfolio with some minor smudges on the back cover. Interior with minor age toning to the edges of leaves. Portfolio and interior in fine condition overall. S & G Gump unknown
1925réf. 35816New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1925. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 2 50 leaves plates 2 51-100 leaves plates IX text 151-200 leaves plates 5 201-300 leaves plates. Library burgundy cloth with original front cover pasted on each one of the first three volumes. Last volume with original burgundy cloth and gold lettering on spine and front cover. Exquisite pictorial survey of Spanish interiors and furniture from the 14th to the 18th centuries superbly illustrated throughout with 250 out of 300 magnificent b/w photographic reproductions and measured drawings by Arthur Byne. The volume containing plates 101-150 is missing. Heavy rubbing and sporadic closed tears along edges of binding. Spine missing on second and third volumes. Minor and sporadic smudges along paper margin not affecting text or images. Bindings in overall poor to fair interior in good to good condition. Architectural Book Publishing Co. hardcover
