Kingsley, The Reverend Charles (1819-75)Biblio.com
1850réf. 70047London: Chapman and Hall 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. In this novel Kingsley set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clothing trade and the trials and tribulations of agricultural laborers. It also gives an insight into the Chartist campaign with which Kingsley was involved in the 1840s. From the library of Scottish lawyer university administrator and bibliophile Dr. Alexander Bennett McGrigor of Cairnoch LLD 1827-1891 with his gilt-stamped leather bookplate to each front pastedown. Octavo two volumes. In three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper bindings by Maclehose of Glasgow with gilt titles five raised bands and matching marbled endpapers. The original cloth has been laid down on blank leaves and bound in at the rear. The spines are a touch sun faded; otherwise very good and quite lovely. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1899réf. 026549NY: Benziger Brothers. 268 pages plus ads at back. A fair copy with cover stain and small corner chewed off. Interior hing cracked. Yet all is tight. Klauder was de-frocked shortly after this printing due to other reasons. All of his original work in any editon is scarce. A worthwhile copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Fair. Black Cloth Hardback. 6th Editoin. 1899. Benziger Brothers hardcover
1994réf. 046194Angelus Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Faint ring indentation in front cover Angelus Press hardcover
2011réf. G8577632164I3N00PALAVRA & PRECE 2011. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. PALAVRA & PRECE paperback
1943réf. bing98np009National Catholic Welfare Conference 1943. no dustjacket hardcover. good; used. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes sm4to; 894 pages; good hardcover no dustjacket; some tanning and foxing to edges; spine starting to slant; only slight signs of use and wear; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; perfect gift for anyone interested in vatican or papal history National Catholic Welfare Conference hardcover
1999réf. 728Salvador Bahia Brasil: Aries Editora 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Photography by Neto Mario Cravo. Salvador"-in this case a first edition copy in fine condition-serves as an excellent introduction to the work of Mario Cravo Neto. Neto was a Brazilian artist who worked in the last part of the 20th century and was best known for his photography. Starting in the mid-1970s that photography tended to be black-and-white images of staged imagined ceremonies that evoked the bi-racial and multi-cultural people of his native Bahia state in Brazil. But things shifted with this book "Salvador" in 1999. Here he moved from black-and-white to rich color film and took his camera out into the streets of the capital of Bahia Salvador where he himself lived and grew up. Though some of the scenes could possibly be staged it is obvious that he wants to share his world-his Salvador-as it is not as a stylized recreation. At the same time nothing about the photographs here could be considered "objective" and though they are beautiful they certainly aren't conventionally pretty in the way that would make the local tourist board happy. Critic Anna Wilkes Tucker noted that "This is a very personal book.more poetic and less informative than might be expected." She stated for instance that Salvador originated as a major center for the Portuguese slave trade with Africa and to this day it has one of the largest black and mixed-race populations in Brazil. Tucker points out that hardly any of the people photographed for "Salvador" are white and none come from the upper classes. Neto makes a point of photographing everyday people but also produces a gallery of the town's intellectuals and artists as if to point with pride at what this former slave port has produced. He documents the city's artwork itself too whether that is various kinds of folk art or the incredible baroque altarpieces in the city's colonial churches. Neto belonged to an artistic family-his father Mario Cravo Junior was a famed sculptor and now his son Christian Cravo is a photographer himself-and his father's sculptures appear in these sections. The images of churches especially of the religious statuary blend in with his photographs of ceremonies and worshipers involved with indigenous and uniquely Brazilian religions which combine African Christian and other beliefs particularly Candomblé which developed in Brazil in the 19th century. This marked a turning point in Neto's work which starting in 1999 took on a new spiritual dimension that focused especially on Brazilian religious expression and within that especially on Candomblé until his death in 2009. Our copy is apparently a first printing-there is no date line or any reference to other printings on either the copyright page in the front or the expanded copyright page in the back-and is stated as a first edition. All of the text appears in both Portuguese and in English. It is in fine condition the only flaw being a gift inscription on the first free end paper in the front. It is bound in sky blue cloth with the title blind stamped in large letters at the bottom of both covers; nothing appears on the spine. The dust jacket is in near-fine condition because of a bit of shelf wear along the edges. The front panel of the dust jacket is covered by a copy of a full-page photograph of a boy holding a large waterbird a gull by the beak and the book title in large gold letters at the bottom. The back dust jacket panel is similar with a copy of a photograph of small boats tied up in the harbor with the photographer's two surnames elided together at the bottom. Both pictures appear within the textblock. There is very little text in this book-no captions no table of contents and only a few short essays with a list of dates of the dates of the photographs at the end. The large majority of the pages are simply photographs-mostly full page but a few smaller and a few stretching across two pages-and the only pages with page numbers are the ones with text. None have any markings tears or other flaws. This is a Brazil the tourists who stick to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro or even those who take an ecotour of the Amazon rainforest will never see and is well worth a visit especially with such a talented and passionate guide as Mario Cravo Neto. Photos are forthcoming or available upon request. Note: because of the large size of this item there may be a price increase for international shipping. Aries Editora hardcover
1926réf. 003054Shanghai: The Commercial Press 1926. The author Su Manshu a brilliant poet writer painter and linguist was born in Yokohama of a Chinese father and a Japanese concubine. Throughout his relatively short life he suffered from bouts of depression likely due both to discrimination resulting from the circumstance of his birth and to the consequences of a libertine lifestyle. He entered the Buddhist monkhood three times attempting to find a solution to his despair; however unable to give up his love of wine and women he left the order. Despite his tumultuous life his accomplishments were significant including the translation of the poetry of Lord Byron and the novel Les Miserables into Chinese. He was also active in the revolutionary movement against the Qing Dynasty and wrote eloquently in support of this cause. The present semi-autobiographical novel was first written in his typically lyrical Chinese in 1912 the protagonist closely following his own romantic endeavours. It was translated in 1924 six years after his death at age 34 the translator taking great effort to retain as much of the flavour of the original classical Chinese as possible. The present volume is the third printing of this first edition. Christmas gift sticker on front pastedown; gift dedication on FFEP bookshop sticker on FFEP verso. Minor wear to cover; binding sound. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Internal pages clean and unmarked. xii 147 pp. 1 sepia portrait of the author. First edition 3rd printing. Hardbound. Very Good. 19 x 13 cm. The Commercial Press Hardcover
1929réf. 111368Santa Clara: university of Santa Clara 1929 43 pages Counter- Conceptives isn't a real word but apparently the author thought he was breaking new ground. A very scarce contraceptive pamphlet. university of Santa Clara paperback
2019réf. BN222712ABBOTT LABORATORIES 2019. 2019. Hardcover. La Adoración Agradable a Dios: El Manual del Adorador La Adoración Agradable a Dios: El Manual del Adorador Padre Eliseo Noel ABBOTT LABORATORIES hardcover
1902réf. 85452New York: Selmar Hess 1902. First Edition. Two Volumes 8 vols bound in 2 bound from parts. Large Quarto. 30cm. Later institutional pebble green cloth with leather title labels. Light wear to the cloth some chipping to title labels bright strong and handsome; internally clean private library stamp to flyleaves cosmetic cracking to innner front joint of Vol I each plate with a captioned tissue guard and with general contents and title pages for the respective volumes bound in at the front of each volume thus the plate lists and explanatory matter are at the beginning of each volume and the larger bulk of the books is taken up with a wealth of plates and engravings; slight dampstaining to a couple of margins not affecting text or the outstanding quality of the plates. A very good clean set. A wildly enthusiastic and imposing collection of contemporary engravings and depictions of notable characters from popular literature executed by important artists and illustrators. Work by Landseer Doré Gerome and an army of others depicting characters from Dickens Coleridge the Greek Myths and just about every literary fandom from the 19th century and earlier. An interesting reflection on an area of publishing and printing that was once incredibly popular but has now been entirely replaced by Instagram and a well curated Tumblr. Selmar Hess unknown books
1929réf. 414060Montclair New Jersey: The First Congregational Church 1929. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 19 1pp. Cord-stitched engraved off-white wrappers. Edges of the wrappers slightly bumped and soiled near fine. Finely printed portrait photograph of Gates laid in. Includes a letter signed in type by John D. Rockefeller Jr. acknowledging Gates' service on the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. According to Wikipedia Gates was an "American Baptist clergyman educator and the principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Sr. from 1891 to 1923." OCLC locates two copies. The First Congregational Church unknown books
2020réf. x-1644691094Cherry Orchard Books 2020. Hardcover. New. 119 pages. 8.75x8.75x0.50 inches. Cherry Orchard Books hardcover
1977réf. 55317Milano: Rizzoli 1977. Cm. 405 pp. 243 1. Con moltissime illustrazioni nel testo molte delle quali applicate al piatto e con 60 illustrazioni anche ripiegate a piena pagina f.t. Legatura editoriale in piena tela con sovracoperta illustrata. Entro cofanetto edit. in piena tela. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Collana "Grandi monografie d'arte". Rizzoli, hardcover
1924réf. 47631La Spezia: L'Eroica 1924. Cm. 315 pp. 122 2. Con illustrazioni xilografiche a colori nel testo. Bross. edit. con xilografia di Morbiducci. Perfetto stato di conservazione intonso. Raccolta di quattro quaderni in un fascicolo conservato entro la busta originale illustrata che veniva utilizzata dalla casa editrice per l'invio. L'Eroica unknown
1837réf. 41383Lucca: Giusti 1837. Cm. 36 pp. 70. Ritratto del Tasso inciso in rame e 33 tavole fuori testo di ritratti fac-simili frammenti ecc. Leg. post. in mezza tela con punte. Un paio di timbri di possesso. Buona conservazione. Cfr. Raccolta Tassiana 1474: "Si tratta della pubblicazione dei manoscritti tassiani che l'Alberti aveva falsificato con certa abilità al punto di sorprendere la buona fede di alcuni studiosi di cose tassiane. La mistificazione scoperta procurò all'Alberti un processo ed una condanna". Cfr. Gamba 980 che cita l'esistenza di esemplari colorati. Giusti hardcover
1837réf. 55525Lucca: Giusti 1837. Cm. 37 pp. 38 4 con l'elenco degli associati all'opera. Ritratto del Tasso inciso in rame e 16 di 33! tavole fuori testo a colori di ritratti fac-simili frammenti ecc. Solida leg. del tempo in piena pergamena rigida dorso a nervi con titoli e fregi in oro. Esemplare genuino e particolarmente marginoso ben conservato. Si tratta della prima parte dell'opera circa metà che però presenta l'interessante particolarità di appartenere alla rara tiratura con le tavole in fine coloritura coeva. Cfr. Raccolta Tassiana 1474: "Si tratta della pubblicazione dei manoscritti tassiani che l'Alberti aveva falsificato con certa abilità al punto di sorprendere la buona fede di alcuni studiosi di cose tassiane. La mistificazione scoperta procurò all'Alberti un processo ed una condanna". Cfr. Gamba 980 che cita l'esistenza di esemplari colorati. Allegato l'opuscolo pubblicitario dell'opera. Giusti unknown
1909réf. 3629Bologna: Romagnoli-Dall'acqua 1909. Due volumi legati in uno di cm. 23 pp. xlvi 354; 334. Ottima leg. del tempo in mezza pergamena con punte con titoli in oro su tassello al dorso. Bross. orig. conservate. Perfetto. Dalla pref. di L. Frati: "Niuna biblioteca privata italiana possiede in sì gran numero raccolte ed edizioni di antiche rime volgari come quella di Giosue Carducci.". Coll. di opere inedite o rare dei primi tre secoli della lingua. Romagnoli-Dall'acqua unknown
1832réf. 84470Padova: coi tipi della Minerva 1832. Due parti in un volume di cm. 225 pp.160; 160. Con ritratto inciso all'antiporta. Solida ed elegante leg. del tempo in mezza pelle dorso a nervi con fregi in oro e titoli su doppio tassello bicolore. Esemplare genuino marginoso ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Interessante epistolario del pensatore moralista friulano Jacopo Stellini 1699-1770 che si traduce in una raccolta di riflessioni sui diversi sentimenti e comportamenti umani. Interessante lo scritto introduttivo incentrato sulla sua principale opera il "Saggio sull'origine e sui progressi dei costumi". Cfr. per un'altra edizione Gamba 2457. coi tipi della Minerva unknown
2001réf. 43864LED Edizioni Universitarie Di Lettere Economia Diritto. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Vol. I: NF slight soiling to ffep. In NF DJ. ; Vol. II: contains reproduction of the papyrus along with unopened CDs. Slip case is in NF condition.; xvi258 4pp; IL Filarete. Pubblicazioni Della Facoltà Di Lettere E Filosofia Dell’università Degli Studi Di Milano 200 . 2001. 8879161652 . LED Edizioni Universitarie Di Lettere Economia Diritto hardcover
2001réf. 39964LED Edizioni Universitarie Di Lettere Economia Diritto. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Vol. I: NF slight soiling to ffep. In NF DJ. ; Vol. II: contains reproduction of the papyrus along with unopened CDs. Slip case is in NF condition.; xvi258 4pp; IL Filarete. Pubblicazioni Della Facoltà Di Lettere E Filosofia Dell’università Degli Studi Di Milano 200 . 2001. 8879161652 . LED Edizioni Universitarie Di Lettere Economia Diritto hardcover
1993réf. 44634L'Erma Di Bretschneider. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Softcover. Publisher's faint stamp to ffep. Else book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear and a bit of yellowing.; Collezioni Romane Di Antichità 3; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 264 pages . 1993. 8870628191 . L'Erma Di Bretschneider paperback
2009réf. 033720Firenze: Sismel Ed. del Galluzzo 2009. Un volume 21x30 cm di XLIII-1362 pagine. Legatura editoriale in tutta tela blu con titolo dorato al piatto e al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Peso: 2900 gr. Sismel, Ed. del Galluzzo hardcover
2007réf. 033721Firenze: Sismel Ed. del Galluzzo 2007. Un volume 21x30 cm di XLII-1830 pagine. Legatura editoriale in tutta tela blu con titoli dorati al piatto e al dorso. Ottime condizioni. Peso: 3800 gr. Sismel, Ed. del Galluzzo hardcover
1982réf. 239047Milano: Electa - Banca Nazionale del Lavoro 1982 - 1986. Rilegato tela sovracoperta custodia cloth dust jacket slip-case. Ottimo Fine. Opera completa in cinque volumi editi annualmente sotto la direzione di Carlo Pirovano. Collaborazione di Renato Giovannoli Isabella Pezzini Valerio Debò Lucia Corrain. Design Pierluigi Cerri. Ciascun volume di 555 pp. Complessive 4031 illustrazioni numerate infra testo ed altre n.n. all'interno della sinossi del Vol. V in b/n e colore anche a piena e doppia pagina con foto d'epoca riproduzione di quadri manifesti personaggi rivisite schizzi carte geografiche ecc. Dal sommario dei singoli volumi: Vol. I Dall'Unità al nuovo secolo 1860-1900: Il mito del Risorgimento e l'esaltazione dell'Unità - L'unità incompiuta - I volti del potere - Il territorio - La produzione - L'organizzazione della cultura - Verso le comunicazioni di massa - L'Italia e gli altri. Vol. II Dall'espansione alla seconda guerra mondiale 1900 - 1939: L'italia liberale - Il fascismo e la sua rappresentazione - Le smagliature del regime - L'Italia in guerra - Il territorio - La produzione - L'organizzazione della cultura - Il costume e le comunicazioni di massa. Vol. III Guerra dopoguerra ricostruzione decollo 1939 - 1960: Maturità e crisi della società italiana durante il fascismo - L'Italia in guerra - Il dibattito sulla ricostruzione - Due mondi politici a confronto - L'Italia del miracolo - Città e territorio - Le arti e le lettere - Le comunicazioni di massa. Vol. IV La difficile democrazia 1960 - 1980: Il miracolo e la crisi - L'ondata del Sessantotto e l'ascesa delle sinistre - Le disfunzioni del sistema - La società in trasformazione - Città e territorio - La produzione - La cultura - La comunicazione di massa . Vol. V Il paese immaginato 1860- 1980: Utopie e distopie storiche - Visioni e strategie politiche - Strategie economiche - Previsioni produttive - Utopie sociali e civili - Le utopie ambientali - La speranza culturale - Il futuro remoto dei mass-media - Sinossi 1860 - 1980. Al termine dei primi quattro vol.: Riferimenti bibliografici indice analitico. Fonti fotografiche; nell'ultimo vol: Indice tematico ed indice dei nomi. Impossibile per ragioni di spazio dar conto dei testi all'interno dei singoli capitoli cui hanno complessivamente contribuito oltre al curatore altri 56 Autori: tra questi Alberto Abruzzese Carlo Bertelli Gianfranco Bettetini Donatella Calabi Giampiero Carocci Valerio Castronovo Marcello Cini Furio Colombo Giovanni De Luna Franco Della Peruta Umberto Eco Maurizio Ferraris Paolo Fossati Renato Giovannoli Vittorio Gregotti Carlo Olmo Rosario Romeo Gianni Scalia Nicola Tranfaglia Salvatore Veca Carlo Tullio Altan Leo Valiani et altri. . Cm. 2850 x 2550. pp. 2775 complessive. Ottimo Fine. ingialliture ai margini delle custodie e piccolo taglietto al bordo della custodia del III volume. Prima edizione First Edition. Electa - Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, hardcover
1894réf. 020112Notre Dame: Notre Dame: Scolastic Press 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition First Print. Pp. 391. Illus/s. with portrait plates. In original decorated cloth. Signature to the title page possibly of Wm. Arch. McClean. Gettsburg Pa. Tightly bound staining to the top of pages and some edges although definitely noticeable. its not overly intrusive scarce publication. . Notre Dame: Scolastic Press Hardcover
