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2017réf. SBBIH-XHO2YZTZJ2MPMarsilio Editori 2017. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Marsilio Editori hardcover
1938réf. 355490724445London: Cape 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. London: Jonathan Cape 1938. First UK Edition. Publisher's dark-pink boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Red top-edge. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Black and white illustrations xiv 324pp. Includes bibliography and index. A fine copy in a VG price-clipped dustwrapper with a slightly darkened spine a hint of wear to the spine tips and the extremities and with a short closed tear to the top-edge of the back panel. Biographies of significant and incredible Chinese women women poets calligraphists painters educators and warriors from ancient to modern times are collated by Florence Ayscough a sinologist writer and translator of Chinese literature. The author paints through facts poetry and pictures the "then" and "now" of life for professional women - in childhood girlhood marriage education and professional life. She dwells admiringly on the 3 remarkable Soong sisters who became wives and able counselors of H H Kung Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request. Cape hardcover
1894réf. LFA00d24Un ouvrage de 343 pages, format 230 x 280 mm, broché, publié en 1894, Librairie Ancienne de Louis Brun (Lyon), bon état
1993réf. x-371865265XHarwood Academic Pub 1993. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 276 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.75 inches. Harwood Academic Pub hardcover
1925réf. 511019Nitecki. GOOD- Reading Copy/No Dust Wrapper. 1925. Polish Language/loose Binding. Hard Cover. Nitecki hardcover
2025réf. SBS-9781645343189AcademiQ Infomedia 2025. Hardcover. New. AcademiQ Infomedia hardcover
2025réf. SBS-9781645343189AcademiQ Infomedia 2025. Hardcover. New. AcademiQ Infomedia hardcover
1916réf. 131283The sole UK printing published by Blackie & Son Ltd London : nd but 1916. Size : 32 x 25 cm. The BOOK is in Very Good condition. Original publisher's boards teal cloth spine with black lettering and with a coloured plate to the front cover. Some age related pushing and fraying to the spine tips with some rubbing to the corners and edges in places. Moderating spotting to the blank end-papers otherwise internally clean with just some minor age related handling marks etc. The binding remains tight with just some early easing in places at the hinges. No loose or missing pages. Numerous colour and monochrome blue plates. A scarce title protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Blackie & Son Ltd, London hardcover
1870réf. List36105N.p. 1870. Carte After the original photograph by William Edward Kilburn 1818–1891 taken circa 1854 with later CDV issue probably circa 1870s. Albumen print mounted on card; sitter identified in print beneath image. Standard carte-de-visite format approximately 2½ x 4 inches. Excellent contrast with light surface wear. Seated three-quarter portrait of Nightingale in dark silk dress with white collar hands folded over a paper posed beside an upholstered Victorian chair. The image derives from a sitting arranged in London with William Edward Kilburn one of Britain’s early professional photographers and a former daguerreotypist who gained fame by exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the early 1850s Kilburn had established a reputation for photographing members of the aristocracy and prominent public figures. The Nightingale sitting happened shortly before her departure for the Crimea in October 1854 at a moment when her name was just entering the public press. The portrait predates her full transformation into the national icon later known as the “Lady with the Lamp.” Unlike later more romanticized images Kilburn’s photograph presents a composed unsentimental likeness more consistent with standard portraiture practices than her later photographs. Following Nightingale’s wartime service at Scutari 1854–1856 and the subsequent surge of public acclaim Kilburn’s image became the primary photographic source from which engravings lithographs and later carte-de-visite reproductions were made.1 1 Denis Pellerin “Florence Nightingale: The Mystery Behind Her Iconic Photographs” The Classic November 15 2020 https://theclassicphotomag.com/florence-nightingale-the-mysteries-behind-her-iconic-photographs/ accessed February 27 2026. unknown
1870réf. List36105N.p. 1870. Carte After the original photograph by William Edward Kilburn 1818–1891 taken circa 1854 with later CDV issue probably circa 1870s. Albumen print mounted on card; sitter identified in print beneath image. Standard carte-de-visite format approximately 2½ x 4 inches. Excellent contrast with light surface wear. Seated three-quarter portrait of Nightingale in dark silk dress with white collar hands folded over a paper posed beside an upholstered Victorian chair. The image derives from a sitting arranged in London with William Edward Kilburn one of Britain’s early professional photographers and a former daguerreotypist who gained fame by exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the early 1850s Kilburn had established a reputation for photographing members of the aristocracy and prominent public figures. The Nightingale sitting happened shortly before her departure for the Crimea in October 1854 at a moment when her name was just entering the public press. The portrait predates her full transformation into the national icon later known as the “Lady with the Lamp.” Unlike later more romanticized images Kilburn’s photograph presents a composed unsentimental likeness more consistent with standard portraiture practices than her later photographs. Following Nightingale’s wartime service at Scutari 1854–1856 and the subsequent surge of public acclaim Kilburn’s image became the primary photographic source from which engravings lithographs and later carte-de-visite reproductions were made.1 1 Denis Pellerin “Florence Nightingale: The Mystery Behind Her Iconic Photographs” The Classic November 15 2020 https://theclassicphotomag.com/florence-nightingale-the-mysteries-behind-her-iconic-photographs/ accessed February 27 2026. unknown books
1938réf. 18041London: Jonathan Cape 1938 First UK edition. A Boston Houghton Mifflin edition was published in 1937. Red publisher's cloth. Gilt-stamped spine. Top edge stained red. . Octavo. Numerous illustrations throughout. Two black and white plates including frontispiece. Index and bibliographical references. Mild shelfwear to board extremities. With illustrated dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear and soiling predominantly to spine. Dust jacket corners clipped. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. Florence Ayscough 1875 or 1878-1942 was born in Shanghai to American and Canadian parents. As a translator editor poet photographer and librarian she worked diligently to promote and elucidate Chinese language history and culture throughout the West. She co-authored her first book Fir Flower Tablets 1921 with her longtime friend the American poet Amy Lowell. She was the honorary librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai for fifteen years and a permanent lecturer at the University of Chicago at the end of her life. Her birthdate is variously listed as 1875 and 1878. The date on her gravestone is 1875 while OCLC and poets.org list it as 1878. Jonathan Cape, hardcover
1938réf. 18041London: Jonathan Cape 1938 First UK edition. A Boston Houghton Mifflin edition was published in 1937. Red publisher's cloth. Gilt-stamped spine. Top edge stained red. . Octavo. Numerous illustrations throughout. Two black and white plates including frontispiece. Index and bibliographical references. Mild shelfwear to board extremities. With illustrated dust-jacket. Minor shelfwear and soiling predominantly to spine. Dust jacket corners clipped. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. Florence Ayscough 1875 or 1878-1942 was born in Shanghai to American and Canadian parents. As a translator editor poet photographer and librarian she worked diligently to promote and elucidate Chinese language history and culture throughout the West. She co-authored her first book Fir Flower Tablets 1921 with her longtime friend the American poet Amy Lowell. She was the honorary librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai for fifteen years and a permanent lecturer at the University of Chicago at the end of her life. Her birthdate is variously listed as 1875 and 1878. The date on her gravestone is 1875 while OCLC and poets.org list it as 1878. Jonathan Cape, hardcover books
1926réf. 39976Boston: Little Brown and Company 1926. 1926. First edition. Lightly foxed on the front and rear endpapers and flap folds else near fine in dust jacket lightly soiled on the rear cover with light professional restoration to the spine ends corners and extremities. During a poetry reading in a Boston bookshop a poet claims he can disappear into the fourth dimension. The next day the bookshop owner disappears followed by the poet leaving a puzzle for the college community. A very desirable title and scarce in this condition. Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. unknown
1941réf. 570609Boston: Little Brown and Company 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by W. Prentice Phillips. About fine in near very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the foot of the spine and several other small nicks and tears. A cook book "written especially for very young cooks." Very scarce. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1941réf. 570609Boston: Little Brown and Company 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by W. Prentice Phillips. About fine in near very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the foot of the spine and several other small nicks and tears. A cook book "written especially for very young cooks." Very scarce. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1860réf. 96102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1860réf. 96102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1930réf. ZZ1731New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1930. 8vo. xii 160 pp. Frontis. port. of Osborn plates index. Burgundy cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket worn and stained with some tape repair. Very good. GEORGE R. MINOT'S COPY 1934 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Dr. George R. Minot's copy with the Author's presentation inscription: "To Dr. George R. Minot; In memory of Charles Sedgwick Minot & Dr. George R. Minot- with the best wishes of Henry Fairfield Osborn December 18th 1930 Congratulations on the well-deserved award." Minot was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine which he shared with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple. The reference to the "award" in the inscription was not to the Noble Prize which came to Minot in 1934. Also in the inscription the use of the phrase "In memory of" certainly applied to Charles Sedgwick Minot who died in 1914 but not to George since he died in 1955. Osborn himself died in 1935. Two earlier editions of the bibliography had been published the first for the period 1877-1910 and the second for the period 1911-1918. Both were compiled by Harriet Ernestine Ripley and continued thereafter by Janette May Lucas. This bibliography is identified in the text as the third edition but it is the first edition of the complete bibliography. A special copy in every respect. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. hardcover
1930réf. ZZ1731New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1930. 8vo. xii 160 pp. Frontis. port. of Osborn plates index. Burgundy cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket worn and stained with some tape repair. Very good. GEORGE R. MINOT'S COPY 1934 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Dr. George R. Minot's copy with the Author's presentation inscription: "To Dr. George R. Minot; In memory of Charles Sedgwick Minot & Dr. George R. Minot- with the best wishes of Henry Fairfield Osborn December 18th 1930 Congratulations on the well-deserved award." Minot was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine which he shared with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple. The reference to the "award" in the inscription was not to the Noble Prize which came to Minot in 1934. Also in the inscription the use of the phrase "In memory of" certainly applied to Charles Sedgwick Minot who died in 1914 but not to George since he died in 1955. Osborn himself died in 1935. Two earlier editions of the bibliography had been published the first for the period 1877-1910 and the second for the period 1911-1918. Both were compiled by Harriet Ernestine Ripley and continued thereafter by Janette May Lucas. This bibliography is identified in the text as the third edition but it is the first edition of the complete bibliography. A special copy in every respect. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. hardcover books
1643réf. 0071411643. No Binding. Very Good. Original etching on laid paper circular composition ca. 1643-48. Sheet size approx. 145 x 140 mm. A spirited etching of Bacchanalian Scene with Satyrs and Musicians by Stefano della Bella depicting a lively bacchanalian scene with satyrs and children engaged in music and dance within a wooded landscape. The animated figures fluid movement and delicately balanced composition exemplify della Bella's characteristic lightness of touch and his gift for narrative charm. The circular format enhances the sense of intimacy and rhythmic motion while the fine controlled line work reflects the artist's mastery of engraving and etching. Della Bella was one of the most accomplished printmakers of the Italian Baroque admired for his imaginative pastoral and mythological scenes and influential in both Italy and France. Good overall condition for 17th century print. Light even toning consistent with age and paper type. Minor surface soling and faint scattered foxing primarily in the margins. No major tears or losses. The impression remains clear with well-preserved detail and plate mark unknown
1895réf. 461496Boston: De Wolfe Fiske & Co 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition American issue. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Slight soiling on the boards a very nice near fine copy. The black Golliwogg doll entertains two new dolls that are sent to the U.S. from abroad. De Wolfe, Fiske & Co hardcover
1895réf. 461496Boston: De Wolfe Fiske & Co 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition American issue. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Slight soiling on the boards a very nice near fine copy. The black Golliwogg doll entertains two new dolls that are sent to the U.S. from abroad. De Wolfe, Fiske & Co hardcover books
1929réf. mon0000131358Quiver 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Blue hardback/hardcover without dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges due to age. 840 pages. Quiver hardcover
1909réf. 23369London John Long 1909. HB NODustJacket Original Decorated OLIVE Green Cloth with Orange Black White of LADYS HEAD. NF-/VG AS-IS NOJACKET 1909. First edition. Cvr Lettered in Black on Front & Gold Gilt on Spine Spine SUNNED with few Light Spots 320 32 page publishers catalogue. Smooth olive-green clOTh UpPer cover blocked with a pictoriAl design in pale blue black and orange lettered in gilt to spine. Spine a touch lightened lIgHT shelf wear. SmaLl Cover Corner DING Interior Nice Tight Clean Light Fox Wear 320 32 page publishers catalogue. . First Edition. Hard Cover. London, John Long hardcover
1927réf. 056652San Francisco Ca: The American Committee For Fair Play In China 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 6 Pp Outer Covers. Soft Cover Staple Binding But Disbound Original Covers No Marks. "The Unequal Treaties Are The Weapons By Which The Powers Have Established Themselves In China". In Hindsight The Treaties Left An Opening To Japan To Seek Similar Opportunities At The Expense Of The Chinese Which Even The Near-Idiots In Charge Of American Foreign Policy 1789 To 1927 Should Have Foreseen. Very Scarce Worldcat Locates 4 Institutional Holdings All On The East Coast Of The Usa. Unpopular Viewpoints Pointedly Criticizing The Habitual And Monomaniacal Acquisitive Childishness Of The Great Powers Here Shown Particularly Egregiously In China For Hundreds Of Years And Setting The Climate For Japan's Essentially Copycat Invasions And The Start Of Wwii. The American Committee For Fair Play In China paperback
