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1912réf. 962Z21London: British Museum; Longmans & Co 1912. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 13" by 9". None. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated recreation of Queen Mary's Psalter produced for the trustees of the British Museum bound in crushed morocco and housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. The first edition.Illustrated with 316 collotype plates. Collated complete.This impressive work reproduces the pictorial material including miniatures and drawings found in Queen Mary's Psalter which included the Old Testament cycle and calendar followed by Canticles Litanies and prayers. Queen Mary's psalter was actually produced centuries prior to her birth possibly for Isabella of France 1295-1358 Queen of England and consort of Edward II. The psalter was was produced in England perhaps in London or East Anglia circa 1310/20 by a single artist now known only as the 'Queen Mary Master.'Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards and housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards and housed in a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally excellent with very minimal edge wear. Bookplate of Eric Sweet to the front pastedown. Front hinge strained after front blank. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot heavier to the front and rear. The slip and chemise are excellent with only the odd minor mark. Very Good Indeed British Museum; Longmans & Co hardcover
1936réf. 10594McFarlane Ward McFarlane and Japan Society of New York 1936. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A wonderful Presentation copy: INSCRIBED BY LANGDON WARNER TO ERIC GILL THE GREAT BRITISH PRINTMAKER AND TYPEFACE DESIGNER AND SCULPTOR AND STONECUTTER -- AND KEY FIGURE IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT. A solid well-preserved copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition. Tight and VG with light foxing at the endsheets in a bright price-intact VG- dustjacket wth light wear at the spine ends and light creasing --and several small closed tears-- along the panle edges. Still though an attractive presentable copy. Thick quarto 55 pgs. of text plus 85 crisp black-and-white plates. Signed by Author. McFarlane, Ward, McFarlane and Japan Society of New York unknown
1936réf. 10594McFarlane Ward McFarlane and Japan Society of New York 1936. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A wonderful Presentation copy: INSCRIBED BY LANGDON WARNER TO ERIC GILL THE GREAT BRITISH PRINTMAKER AND TYPEFACE DESIGNER AND SCULPTOR AND STONECUTTER -- AND KEY FIGURE IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT. A solid well-preserved copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition. Tight and VG with light foxing at the endsheets in a bright price-intact VG- dustjacket wth light wear at the spine ends and light creasing --and several small closed tears-- along the panle edges. Still though an attractive presentable copy. Thick quarto 55 pgs. of text plus 85 crisp black-and-white plates. Signed by Author. McFarlane, Ward, McFarlane and Japan Society of New York unknown books
1898réf. 140313New York: The International Society 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Charles Dudley Warner edition limited and registered. Complete in 45 volumes. Quartos. Green cloth boards with paper spine label untrimmed pages and top edge gilt. The set has toned spine labels and light touches of scattered wear; two volumes have abraded corners and two others frayed at the crown still a very nice near fine set. The International Society hardcover
1904réf. 70017Hartford Conn.:: The American Publishing Company 1904. Autograph edition; No. 63 of 612 sets. Signed by the publisher and editor and with three pages of autograph manuscript and an autograph letter signed tipped in. . 3/4 olive morocco; gilt spines; t.e.g. Spines uniformly faded; otherwise fine. 8vo. The American Publishing Company, unknown
1898réf. 140313New York: The International Society 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Charles Dudley Warner edition limited and registered. Complete in 45 volumes. Quartos. Green cloth boards with paper spine label untrimmed pages and top edge gilt. The set has toned spine labels and light touches of scattered wear; two volumes have abraded corners and two others frayed at the crown still a very nice near fine set. The International Society hardcover books
1998réf. __1858985870Edward Elgar Pub 1998. Hardcover. New. 1st ed edition. 800 pages. 10.25x7.00x2.50 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
1936réf. 94010Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1936. First edition of Warner's first book a boy's adventure story published in Blackwell's "Tales of Action" series. Set in Egypt and Cyprus where Warner had worked and travelled in his twenties it is "well packed with kidnapping code-breaking escapes car chases and a series of mysterious baroque murders" Reeve p. 10. Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 black and white plates by H. R. Millar. Original purple cloth gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Gift inscription dated 1941 to front free endpaper. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the bright unclipped jacket that has short closed tears to the spine ends and some nicks to the extremities. N. H. Reeve The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction 1989. hardcover
1927réf. 179045London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Gifted from the author to a fellow writer First edition first impression the author's ownership inscription on the head of the front free endpaper and subsequent book label of Daphne Muir on the front pastedown. Muir a South African poet and author moved to England in 1927 and the two authors developed a friendship. Warner records dining and attending classical music concerts with Muir in her diary. Warner wrote Mr Fortune's Maggot as a result of a vivid dream and recalled finishing it in a state of semi-hallucination. The novel "an appealing blend of cleverness oddity and pathos. rich in imagery and extraordinarily sensual descriptive prose" was incredibly popular both in the UK and the US where her first novel Lolly Willowes 1926 had been an unexpected sensation Harman Biography p. 71. Warner was in the centre of an active literary community and was close friends with many of the modernist authors to whom she is now compared. Prior to her novels she published a collection of poetry The Espalier 1925. In her life and writing Warner worked against societal norms: she was active in the Communist Party travelled to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War to work with the Red Cross espoused "unconventional moral fables" in her Kingdoms of Elfin 1977 and lived as a married couple with her partner the poet Valentine Ackland for 38 years. Their love letters were published in 1998 under the title I'll Stand By You and "constitute an extraordinary lesbian love story" ODNB. Octavo. Original black and blue marbled cloth spine lettered in gilt bottom edge untrimmed. Spine cocked and sunned wear to ends and bottom corners foxing to contents: a very good copy. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 3a. Claire Harman Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography 1989; Claire Harman The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner 1994; Vike Martina Plock & Alex Murray "Re-Visiting Sylvia Townsend Warner" Literature Compass Special Issue: Sylvia Townsend Warner December 2014. hardcover
1912réf. 2039449British Museum 1912. Very Good. Three-quarters red leather over maroon cloth boards t.e.g. tall quarto 92 pp. followed by 316 collotype plates. Very minor sunning to spine with corners slightly bumped with no fraying to leather though. Scattered foxing mostly in margins of initial leaves. Very sound overall. British Museum unknown
1931réf. 167296Los Angeles: Fox Film 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1931 film showing actor Warner Oland in costume as Charlie Chan accompanied by Chang Apana the real-life Chinese-Hawaiian detective who inspired the character. Printed mimeo snipe and Fox Film stamp on the verso. Based on Earl Derr Biggers' 1929 novel. The second film to feature Oland as Chan and the only known surviving film of the first five films in the series. Shot on location in Honolulu Hawaii. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Fox Film unknown
1931réf. 167296Los Angeles: Fox Film 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1931 film showing actor Warner Oland in costume as Charlie Chan accompanied by Chang Apana the real-life Chinese-Hawaiian detective who inspired the character. Printed mimeo snipe and Fox Film stamp on the verso. Based on Earl Derr Biggers' 1929 novel. The second film to feature Oland as Chan and the only known surviving film of the first five films in the series. Shot on location in Honolulu Hawaii. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Fox Film unknown books
réf. 12247MAUERHARDT ROLF. 1. softcover. Maloftege! MAUERHARDT, ROLF paperback
1732réf. 160651732. London 1732. 12mo. Drop head title. 12pp. Disbound. ESTC records one location MBco. unknown
1977réf. 34262VERLAG "DIE ARCHE" 1977. 1. hardcover. Sirmkovrilo! VERLAG "DIE ARCHE" hardcover
2011réf. 1-1413316344Nolo 2011. Paperback. New. 8th paperback/cd-rom edition. 368 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.00 inches. Nolo paperback
1972réf. 9768LUTHER 1972. 1. softcover. LUTHER paperback
2010réf. x-1857433394Routledge 2010. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 500 pages. 9.53x6.42x1.18 inches. Routledge hardcover
1976réf. 6710MARVEL 10/1976. 1. softcover. Maloftege! MARVEL paperback
réf. DADAX08722692560000-00-00. hardcover. New. 8.75x0.75x11.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. hardcover
1955réf. AQ35838London: Chatto & Windus 1955. The final produced dustwrapper presented as a single sheet in contemporary card window mount. Together with two stiff card sheets 250 x 200 mm and 220 x 310 mm respectively featuring the selected design in an alternative colour scheme and an alternative dustwrapper design schemes both in in ink and watercolour. Two original designs - including the selected example with two colours offered - of the dustwrapper art for Sylvia Townsend Warner's tragicomic novel Winter in the Air 1955 executed by British illustrator Donald Green 1919-1983. . Dimensions 400 x 370 mm. [Chatto & Windus] unknown
1938réf. ABE-1557111414726First edition. Folio 31.723.7 cm xvi42pp plus 46 plates. Ex-library stamp and stack number on title page titlepiece on spine chipped stack number on bottom spine otherwise a very good hardcover. Scarce. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1938 hardcover
1995réf. 166024N.p.: Dark Horse Entertainment 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film with rainbow revisions. Based on the comic book character created by Chris Warner first appearing in the 1993 comic "Comic's Greatest World: Steel Harbor" and on the "Barb Wire" series published from 1994 to 1996. Pamela Anderson stars as the titular Barb a nightclub owner in a fictional coastal California town "the last free city" in the US which has been divided by a Second Civil War. When Barb's former lover now a freedom fighter arrives at the club asking for help Barb finds herself thrust onto the political stage. Largely panned by critics upon release the film has since attracted a cult following. Shot on location in Long Beach California and Pascagoula Mississippi. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 07/03/95 with credits for screenwriters Chuck Pfarrer and Adam Rifkin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 06/08/95 and 07/03/95. Pages slightly wavy else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Dark Horse Entertainment unknown
1995réf. 166024N.p.: Dark Horse Entertainment 1995. Draft script for the 1996 film with rainbow revisions. Based on the comic book character created by Chris Warner first appearing in the 1993 comic "Comic's Greatest World: Steel Harbor" and on the "Barb Wire" series published from 1994 to 1996. Pamela Anderson stars as the titular Barb a nightclub owner in a fictional coastal California town "the last free city" in the US which has been divided by a Second Civil War. When Barb's former lover now a freedom fighter arrives at the club asking for help Barb finds herself thrust onto the political stage. Largely panned by critics upon release the film has since attracted a cult following. Shot on location in Long Beach California and Pascagoula Mississippi. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 07/03/95 with credits for screenwriters Chuck Pfarrer and Adam Rifkin. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 06/08/95 and 07/03/95. Pages slightly wavy else Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Dark Horse Entertainment unknown books
1874réf. 020942Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. Hardcover. Library bookplate on the front pastedown with gift label below and small ink stamp of donor on front endpaper; unobtrusive blindstamp on front blanks title page and several pages following; contents very clean. Binding is tight and but for very minor fraying at the spine tips and a small section of the spine discolored is in very nice condition. About Fine. Original gilt-decorated black cloth. Early but not first printing of Mark Twain's first novel its title giving name to the peculiarly American era it describes. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3357. Issue without ads at rear. Though the title page is dated 1874 it otherwise matches with all of BAL's first issue points but for two: pages 352 and 353. This copy also with the first issue of page vii Eschol Sellers page 246 and page 280; other points are later issue. Both hinges cracked but tight the front reinforced internally with binder's tape. American Publishing Company hardcover books
