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8vo., First Edition; bright blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Dustwrapper illustration by John Piper.
12mo., on laid paper, with engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved plates; contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in calf to style, original red lather label laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. The frontispiece is Phinn's medallion portrait of the author, first published in Donaldson's edition of the Poetical Works in 1772. The plates (also by Phinn) are placed to head books IV, VIII and IX. This edition includes, in addition to the poem, the Preface (by Lackington), the Life (by Newton) augmented with extracts from Toland and Birch, Barrow's 'In Paradisum Amissam', Marvell's 'On Paradise Lost', a description of the verse and full index. This edition is selected for comment by Professor John T. Shawcross in his address celebrating the acquisition of the Robert J. Wickenheiser collection of Miltoniana by the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina (2006), together with an even more elusive companion volume. EXTREMELY SCARCE. ESTC N32815. Not recorded by NCBEL. COPAC lists copies only at Auckland, BL and Harvard.
Sm. folio, with coloured frontispiece and 11 fine coloured plates; terracotta watered silk cloth, green morocco back lettered and blocked in gilt, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 41 plates on 22, numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white, blue top, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a maritime minor classic: the well-written account of Bill and Phyllis Crowe's circumnavigation in the schooner LANG SYNE. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
4to, 96 pages, colour illustrated, ex library copy with usual signs. eng
VG pbk. (The Royal Standard series).12055. eng
1st edition. VG paperback. 8819. eng
FIRST EDITION of this recension of the Legend of St. Brendan. XXV pp, 1 blank leaf, 96 pp. Beautifully printed by Motteroz on fine handmade laid paper. "Tire a petit nombre." Title-page printed in red and black. 8vo. Original printed wraps (this printed wrapper is missing in many copies). Uncut. Wraps lightly soiled and worn. Internally fine and bright. Very scarce.
Paris, Plon 1991. In-8 broché de 386 pages. Très bon état.
Plon 1964, In-8 cartonnage éditeur, 218 pages. Bon état.
Ed. La Martiniére 2001, In-4 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 205 p. Trés belles photos. Trés bel état.
Cahiers de Conques 1995. Grand et fort In-8 broché de 427 pages + photos. Bon état.
Grand livre du mois, 1995. In-8 relié cartonnage souple de 493 pages. Rares passages discrètement soulignés au crayon de papier sinon Très bon état
343p. 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Spine lettered in gold. Original priced dust jacket designed by Suzanne Noli. First Edition. Hardbound. Near fine copy. LITERATURE BOX 5
121 p. + Fantastic frontis showing image of the sea captain riding a spherical rocket ship through space. 8vo. Original full red pictorial cloth binding, decorated with an image similar to the frontis . Though the binding shows some slight wear, this is an extremely well preserved copy. Released in October 1909, Captain Stormfield was the last book Mark Twain published in his lifetime. Twain had worked on the story over a period of almost 40 years. RW70
pp. ix, 16. Title page decorated with large red initial. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Inked ownership of J. F. Oller, 1924, on end paper and slip case. Square 12mo. Original stiff blue wraps, decorated and lettered in green. Original slip case. Fifth edition. Limited Edition of only 925 copies. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
Unpaginated. Photographs by Lies Wiegman. Text by Margareta Stromstedt. Each page has a photograph with text. Square 8vo. Original glossy pictorial binding. Original pictorial dust jacket. "This book is many things. It is a new legend, a dream story in words and pictures. It is a book about and for children. It is also perhaps the most mature live story you will ever read". Very good. W102RtStack
pp. [34], 531, [11]. Small 12 mo. 144 mm. German text, printed in old Fraktur type. Age stain. Apples in woven basket woodcut terminal device. Worn original full leather binding, with clasps. Johann Arndt (1555-1621) was among the most significant of Lutheran authors. He was sometimes referred to as the 'Father of German Pietism'. This work, also known as the 'Paradiess-Gartlein', served as a major source for the first Swiss-Mennonite prayerbook [Ernsthafte Christenpflicht]. GLP/USA 316; Evans 9907; Hildeburn 2304; Seidensticker p. 72. SCARCE. JUN_GER1
Mm 245x285 Catalogo della mostra di Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, 20 giugno - 30 settembre 2019. Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 199 pagine con 250 illustrazioni in nero e a colori. Libro in condizioni di nuovo - brand new in original shrinkwrap.
Paris - Plon - 1860 - In-8 - Broché - Frontispice + gravure PP HT - 405 p - Très propre intérieurement
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 253pp. Critical analysis of Milton's Paradise Lost by a range of prominent literary critics.
Book in mint unread condition. 159pp. This issues features American Arendt, Sargent's other portraits, All poems end with the word paradise, Edmund Burke and the problem of Value, fiction by Gordon Lish, Philip Roth's final hours, The ends of aesthetic ravishment, fiction from Wil Weitzel plus other fiction and poems from a few authors. Very scarce in the UK.
grand in-8°, 139 pages illustrees en couleurs, rel. cartonnage ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [VF-1]
Hardcover in-4°, 303 pages abdt illustrees en couleurs, cartonnage ed., jaquette ill. pell.- 9782080351920 Bel exemplaire (qq. accrocs a la jaquette). [RB-1]
in-12, 266 pp., broché Bel exemplaire. [NV-36]
