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1859réf. 12963Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1859. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Near fine. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith edited by John Ramsay M'Culloch fifth edition published in 1859. Octavo lxvi 2 685pp. Publisher's original brown cloth with embellishments stamped in blind on covers. Title in gilt on spine. Stated "Fifth Edition Corrected and Improved" on title page. Solid text block light rubbing to covers faint sunning to spine bumped top edge of spine. Includes two portraits of Adam Smith both with tissues covers. Internally fine. Adam and Charles Black unknown books
2008réf. 338839New York: Rizzoli 2008. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Albert Hadley. Extensively illustrated many in color. 271 pages 4to black boards d.w. New York: Rizzoli 2008. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Rizzoli unknown books
2010réf. 628014Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition English-language issue. Essays by Andreas Adam Paul Goldberger and Kent Lydecker. Small quarto. 557pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Corners and spine ends very gently bumped else fine in very good or better dust jacket with corresponding bumping and several light scratches on the rear panel that don't break the surface. Scheidegger & Spiess hardcover books
1978réf. 1398359London UK: Collins 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 248 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "£4.95"on front flap has mild shelving wear along extremities and mild age-toning along head edge of rear cover. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head tail and light creasing to joints; spine moderately cocked. Textblock edges have mild scuffing head edge has moderate dust-burning. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4. 1398359. FP New Rockville Stock. Collins hardcover books
2000réf. 126470London: Bantam Press 2000. 251p. 8plates of b&w and color photos very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped dj. Bantam Press unknown books
1977réf. 21810Santee CA: Blueboy Library 1977. Paperback. 184p. very good first printing PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction . Blueboy Library 80055. In high finance Greek is good. Er I mean greed. Blueboy Library paperback books
1817réf. 20141Winchester VA: John T Sharrocks J Foster Printer 1817. First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Very good; some overall browning; tide mark diminishing to the first few leaves of both volumes; bindings scuffed; hinges are strained; a small paper flaw in page 5 of volume one touching two letters. 8vo I - iv 5 - 200 pp.; II - 2 3 - 200 pp. Both volumes collate: A - M8 N4. The copyright notice attributes authorship to Adam Douglass. He had emigrated at a young age from Belfast and settled in the US but went back to Ireland in 1812. He returned a few years later and settled in New Market VA writing two books including this one see Wayland A History of Shenandoah County. The last definite appearance of the book in trade that I could locate was in 1959 in a Midland Notes catalog that copy defective with a page chip affecting three lines of text; the copy of record at the AAS is also defective lacking a leaf of text. Foster was a job printer and newspaper publisher in Winchester see Index of Virginia Printing for a detailed biography who left the trade in 1821. The author states in the preface: "The Emigration from Ireland to the United States has been and still is vast. No human being can love his country better than an Irishman. But oppression forces him from his home. And the sons of Columbia grant him an asylum in a land where virtue reigns triumphant and where he can assert those rights as a man which heaven has implanted in his breast." It purports to be the first Irish-American novel. S&S #41151; Wright I #1367. John T Sharrocks, J Foster Printer unknown books
1798réf. 19022Vienna: J V Degen 1798. First Edition. Later marbled paper over boards. Very good. 8vo xviii 124 10 pp. Bartsch was the son of a court official of Prince Starhemberg of Austria. He studied academic subjects at the University in Vienna and then drawing and engraving at Viennese Academy of Arts Kupferstecherakademie under Jacob Schmuzer 1733-1811. From 1777-1781 he worked in the Imperial Library cataloging books. Between 1783-4 he was sent to Paris with the print collection's registrar Paul Strattmann. Returning to Vienna Bartsch received his first commission for a catalogue raisonné of prints that of the collection of Charles Antoine Joseph Prince de Ligne 1759-1792. In it Bartsch set out the organizing principles of what would be his famous later work Le Peintre graveur. In 1791 he was appointed curator of the imperial print collection by its director Gottfried Baron van Swieten 1734-1803. The Imperial collection expanded nearly 20-fold under his direction. Bartsch was elected to the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts in 1792. In 1794 was named adviser to Albert Duke of Saxe-Teschen on his drawings collection. In 1795 Bartsch embarked upon a series of artist's oeuvre catalogs beginning with the prints of Antoni Waterloo 1610-1690. Catalogs of the prints of Guido Reni and his pupils 1795 Rembrandt 1797 and Lucas van Leyden 1798 offered here. J V Degen hardcover books
1995réf. 627708New York: St. Martin's Press 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Adam Potkay. Octavo. 268pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of light rubbing. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1949réf. 627620New York: The Modern Library 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing "The famous Cannan edition complete and unabridged in one volume with Cannan's introduction and notes a complete Index and a new introduction by Max Lerner editor of The Nation." - from the jacket. Thick octavo. lx 976pp. Gray Toledano style G5 binding stamped in green and gilt in Toledano style Gd jacket. English scholar name and address penned on front fly spine ends lightly bumped near fine in a very good age-toned dust jacket with small dampstains on spine with a short tear mid-spine short chips on spine ends and corners. Inside jacket lists 341 titles listing to #264 Pride and Prejudice by Austen dating this circa 1949. The Modern Library hardcover books
2008réf. 627598Köln: Taschen 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Essay by Andreas Krase. Quarto. 251pp. Corners and spine ends gently bumped slightest ripple in the top and bottom margins near fine in edgeworn very good dust jacket with a bump at the crown. Taschen hardcover books
2005réf. 627528Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 468pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. An historical narrative on the anti-slave movement in Britain during the eighteen and nineteenth century. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1984réf. 89325No. Hollywood: Arena Pub 1984. Paperback. 186p. price sticker on cover else a very good reprint PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Power Force Series PF-113. Murder and gay desire in Florida's cattle industry. Noted in Gunn page 221 under Jack Stone's entry. Originally published as "Hot Bodies" by Surree. Arena Pub paperback books
1982réf. 89289No. Hollywood: Arena Pub 1982. Paperback. 160p. price written in black marker on cover otherwise a very good condition first printing PBO in explicit color pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Driveshaft Library DS 114. Arena Pub paperback books
2010réf. 2349810New York: Dark Horse Books 2010. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 6x0x8. First edition - a paperback original. An exceptional copy. 2010 Soft Cover. 208 pp. After a fiery disaster claims the lives of several teammates costumed crimefighter Empowered stumbles upon an ugly little secret of the masks-and-tights business: a growing number of ill-fated superheroes have found out the hard way that while their bodies are still mortal their superpowers are not. Now only our downtrodden but doggedly determined heroine can save the semiliving superdead from a very genuine "fate worse than death" while simultaneously grappling with the challenges of vengefully vacationing ninja clans car-trunk carpet burn superhero-fantasy-league drafts excessive bedroom chatter and deals with the devil both figurative and literal! All this plus Emp's not-so-secret origin is revealed at last! Includes: The What-the-Fuckiest Five Minutes of My Career So Far; Of Clingy Monkeys and Negative Excrescence; Of Fantasy Points and Aftermathiness; Don't Let Them Bury Me; I'm Not Quite Dead; My Advice for Struggling Superheroines; A Very Long and Very Uncomfortable Eternity. Dark Horse Books paperback books
2015réf. 2344617Boston/New York: Mariner Classics 2015. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Eleventh printing. New. An exceptional copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. xliv 260 pp. In 1936 originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant - as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches - with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks no titles and often no weapons - and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles. Mariner Classics paperback books
1971réf. 2346309New York: Harper & Row 1971. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. 2nd printing. Edge wear boards bowed. 1971 Hard Cover. 434 pp. Explores the growth of the American military since WWII and the way that it has affected social norms. Harper & Row hardcover books
2012réf. 2339183Boston/New York: Mariner Books 2012. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. First paperback printing. A fine copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2012 Trade Paperback. xx 448 pp. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Mariner Books paperback books
1936réf. 2340281London: Geoffrey Bles 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Mottled staining on front and rear board jacket lightly rubbed with small sticker on jacket spine jacket price clipped. 1936 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A pseudonymous mystery novel by British government official Godfrey Warden James whose fiction often discusses the experiences of British men tasked with the administration of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone. His other works include Crowner's Quest The Island of Death and The Cambridge Murders. From the flap: "Mammy Green whose ostensible trade was that of a dealer in native produce in Edwardsville Old Guinea was in point of fact assumed to be at the bottom of most of the unpunished crimes in the Colony. It was even rumoured that the nefarious activities which had earned her the nickname of 'The Black Mamba' had been so profitable as to enable her to send two sons to Cambridge and a daughter to one of the most fashionable girls' schools in the South of England. In any case Stanley Carruthers on his first appointment to the Coast wasted no time in falling into the trap which she cunningly laid for him for 'The Black Mamba' was something of a specialist in dealing with young men. Geoffrey Bles hardcover books
1844réf. 2340690London: Smith Elder and Co 1844. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. First edition Sabin 95370 Howes T-161. Lightly toned minor smudges on rear wrapper otherwise an excellent copy. Text clean and unmarked. 1844 Soft Cover. 44 pp. Sewn binding printed self wrappers. An account by the recorder of Rupert's Land - a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin - of the United States' claim to the Oregon Territory published "to shew from materials furnished by the Americans themselves Greenhow's 'Memoir' that the claim of Great Britain to the Oregon territory is superior to theirs." Includes a chronology of pertinent 'discoveries' by various European settlers from 1543-1812. Smith, Elder and Co paperback books
2008réf. 2342968London: Harper Perennial 2008. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x7. Third printing. Spine creased pages toned. 2008 Trade Paperback. xviii 634 pp. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end all wars in which the interests of peoples as well as those of rulers would be taken into account. But what followed was an unseemly and at times brutal scramble for territory by the most powerful states in which countries were traded as if they had been private and their inhabitants counted like cattle. The results fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 not only laid the foundations of the European world we know; it put in place a social order and a security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today. Although the defining moments took place in Vienna and the principle players included Tsar Alexander I of Russia the Austrian Chancellor Metternich the Duke of Wellington and the French master of diplomacy Talleyrand as well as Napoleon himself the accepted view of the gathering of statesmen reordering the Continent in elegant salons is a false one. Many of the crucial questions were decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside cottages amid the vagaries of war. And the proceedings in Vienna itself were not as decorous as is usually represented. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand sources in six languages which include not only official documents private letters diaries and first-hand accounts but also the reports of police spies and informers Adam Zamoyski gets below the thin veneer of courtliness and reveals that the new Europe was forged by men in thrall to fear greed and lust in an atmosphere of moral depravity in which sexual favours were traded as readily as provinces and the 'souls' who inhabited them. He has created a chilling account full of menace as well as frivolity. Harper Perennial paperback books
1946réf. 2332938New York: Crown Publishers 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Manso. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears edges lightly foxed bookplate and ink stamps on front endpapers. 1946 Hard Cover. 254 pp. Mrs. Blanding called on Detective Jim Peirce about some strange bidding for an antique necklace. She was killed in the corridor as she left and Pierce took charge. The necklace was worth $500 on its face but the bidding for it was over $25000. Crown Publishers hardcover books
1995réf. 24552New York/London: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. First Edition. Hardcover. spine slightly turned a touch of shelfwear to bottom edges; jacket shows only light surface wear. color art reproductions B&W photographs "This volume includes fifty-nine of Hopper's most important works in full color as well as original works by fiction writers and poets that pay homage to or make reference to the ways in which Hopper pictured our world." Published in conjunction with the Whitney Museum's exhibition of the same name. Contributors: Paul Auster Ann Beattie Tess Gallagher Thom Gunn John Hollanders William Kennedy Galway Kinnell Ann Lauterbach Gail Levin Norman Mailer Leonard Michaels Walter Mosely Grace Paley and James Salter. This copy bears the bookplate of playwright Neil Simon on the ffep on which is his original not printed signature and the additional notation "1998" presumably the date he acquired the book. Signed by Notable Personage Unrelated . c.1995. Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with W.W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1990réf. 315555New York: Viking 1990. First. hardcover. very good. viii 309 pages. 8vo black cloth-backed boards with gold spine lettering. New York: Viking 1990. Cocked rear corner bumped some discoloration -- internally clean and tight. Very good copy lacking dust wrapper. Viking unknown books
1994réf. 1416437New York: Random House 1994. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 183 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine white with blue lettering. Light general shelf wear and rubbing to covers. Creasing and chipping to bottom left corner of back board. Shelved on the Front Table. 1416437. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Random House hardcover books
