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2009ref. 27500Paris; Louvain: Peeters 2009. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 502pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. This volume collects essays on polytheistic and monotheistic realities in antiquity for studying the subject of "religious identities" - the perception of the self or others as singular based on the representation of a reference viewed as superior. Text in French. As new condition. Peeters unknown books
2002ref. 43760Stockport England: Dewi Lewis Publishing 2002. Near fine in a very good jacket. Norfolk's color photographs of Afghanistan both post-war and mid-war. Consciously situated within the European tradition of finding aesthetic pleasure in picturesque ruin but without the mystery and distance usually afforded by such scenes: the viewer knows who left these piles of abandoned military equipment what collection of armies past and present did the ruining. Beautiful in spite of itself. Includes several multi-page fold-out plates all intact. Winner of the 2002 European Publishers Award for Photography. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Beige cloth boards in photographic dust jacket. Light shelfwear with two small closed tears to rear panel of dust jacket. Faint toning to page borders. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Dewi Lewis Publishing unknown books
1926ref. 176575Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion 1926. Softcover. VG light foxing to upper block edges interior pages clean light shelf wear to wraps. Tan wraps with black lettering and color illustration on front cover 31 1 pages 76 2 leaves of plates : illustrations 1 color. Text in French. Exhibition of ancient Russian ceramics from April 15 to October 15 1929 at the Ceramic Museum of Sévres. Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion paperback books
1825ref. 191260New York: Erasmus H. Simon 1825. Hardcover. Good white scuffs to boards; edges rubbed. corners rubbed. spine rubbed w/ approx 2inch cracks to each edge; both boards slightly rattled. spine leather has horizontal crack & light spliting length of textblock. split to textblock though binding joints are firmly holding; a few loose pgs & one section of pgs loose. pgs 52-63 have rough creasing to lower corners w/ pgs crimp. creasing to corners of closing pgs. brown leather boards w/ red & gilt spine plate. 105 pgs w/ 9 bw plates. Aged previous owner's name to title page. Pages and plates tanned and thoroughly foxed. Text remains dark and detailed. Plates printed in a lighter ink but remain highly visible. Remains a sturdy copy. A scarce oddity with lovely symbolic plates. Erasmus H. Simon hardcover books
1993ref. 362048New York: Playbill Incorporated 1993. Softcover. Good. Theater program. Stapled wrappers. 54pp. Pages wavy with some dampstaining and offsetting thus good only in wrappers. A program for the 1993 Broadway production at the Marquis Theatre directed by Michael Kidd and starring Bernadette Peters and Martin Short. Signed on the front by cast members Bernadette Peters Martin Short John Christopher Jones Cynthia Onrubia Erin Torpey Tammy Minoff Harrison Beal Michael Demby-Cain Rick Crom Jamie Beth Chandler Dennis Daniels Denise Faye Sean Grant Nancy Hess Malinda Shaffer Larry Sousa Linda Talcott Rick Manning Ibijoke Anikola Ned Hannah Michele Pigliavento and two others we have been unable to identify. Playbill Incorporated unknown books
1996ref. CNJL2408Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First printing octavo size 725 pp. From the dust jacket flap "This book by a Cambridge professor…offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic gender and labour history with intellectual social and political history… A new general approach to the study of fertility change is proposed; also a new conception of the relationship between class community and fertility change; and a new evaluation of the positive role of feminism." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in red cloth over boards gilt lettering on spine occasional black and white graphs; octavo size 9 1/8" x 6 1/8" pagination: i-viii ix-xix 1 blank 1-704 1 publishers ad. Dust jacket is unclipped unpriced purple colour is bright without sunning illustration Die bösen Mütter by Giovanni Segantini on front cover summary of book on front flap author bio on rear flap recent Cambridge series titles on back cover. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright previous owner initials on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is also near fine the purple colour is bright and not price clipped small amounts of edge wear at the head and foot of spine and at the top of the front flap. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
2018ref. 9027881London: Bloomsbury Academic 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original printed vinyl boards issued without dust jacket. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover books
1986ref. 623349Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Large octavo. 281pp. Illustrated. Full page photogravures of the Nobel recipients. Text in French and English. Fine in a very good glassine dust jacket with creases and short tears. Includes acceptance speeches and overview of the work of the recipients. Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. Other recipients include Klaus von Klitzing Herbert A. Hauptman Jerome Karle Michael S. Brown Joseph L. Goldstein Franco Modigliani and the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Almqvist & Wiksell hardcover books
2006ref. 190972New York: Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 408 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 15 through October 28 2006. Essay by Simon Baker. Features the text of a conversation between Hirst and John Gray. Includes numerous illustrations many of which are gatefolds. A fine copy in cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. An as new copy in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautifully printed and designed book. Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria unknown books
1996ref. 522841Gallup NM: Dusty Dog Press 1996. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Introduction by Edward Butscher. Fine in stapled wrappers. From the library of fellow poet David Ignatow who contributes a blurb to the back cover. Inscribed by the author to Ignatow: "6/29/96 For Dave- to whom I owe so much. Love S." Poetry by "the most widely published unknown poet in America" according to Library Journal. Uncommon. Dusty Dog Press unknown books
ref. 146815N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television series composed entirely of fictitious newspaper clippings telegrams letters and various correspondence between the characters. Robin and Jennifer form The Friday Girls a service for-hire which performs any task that in their own words "takes too much time or too much 'know how' for the client" involving them in a variety of strange and idiosyncratic adventures. Set in Beverly Hills CA. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present noted as A TV Series Premise with credits for screenwriters Rebecca Drenick Marla Simon and Halle Mandel. Approximately 40 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with faint rusting to the binding of the front wrapper and a few leaves likely from a paper clip bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1864ref. 88674London: John Russell Smith 1864 but later. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; gilt spine titles; xii1-390pp; chromolithographed frontispiece; text illus. Undated ca 1920s reissue comprised of British sheets with distribution slug of Empire State Book Co. below publisher's imprint. A well-preserved copy gently worn to board edges; gilt bright on spine text sturdy and unmarked; Very Good. John Russell Smith unknown books
1966ref. 157217London: Jarrolds 1966. First UK Edition preceding all others. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed with a short closed tear on the top edge. Jarrolds unknown books
1968ref. 161785N.p.: RAF Industries 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film one with a provenance stamp on the verso. Louie and Nick are two hoodlums who assault naive and unsuspecting women when they aren't hanging out at the local go-go bar. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. RAF Industries unknown books
1946ref. 353284New York: Simon and Schuster 1946. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Printed paper wrappers. 403pp. with full page illustrations and vignettes by Rafaello Busoni. A chip to the spine top very good with moderate wear at the edges. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. Laid-in is a two-page Typed Letter Signed by Bernarda Shahn "Mommy" and envelope posted May 1955 to Bernarda's daughter Suzanne Shahn. Typed on stationary from the Connaught Hotel London Bernarda gives an interesting account of her visit to the Royal College of Art and to Cherbourg France. Also laid-in is a music manuscript in pencil presumably by Suzanne. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1984ref. 437711New York: Random House 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Gene Saks directed both the Broadway production with Matthew Broderick and Joyce Van Patten and the film with Jonathan Silverman Judith Ivey and Blythe Danner. A very nice copy. Random House hardcover books
ref. 22578SIMON Neil. Signed Photograph. A 8-inch by 10-inch black and white photograph of Simon in his study signed by Simon. Nice contrast. $85.00. unknown books
ref. 6378NY RANDOM 1973. GEORGE BURNS' OSCAR WINNING ROLE FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, RANDOM, 1973 unknown books
1980ref. 197282Wormley Glade Press 1980. 1980. Small 8vo. Translated by A.S. Osley. Original white cloth with printed paper label on upper front cover; blue endpapers. Fine fresh. #11.20 numbered copies. Hardcover. [Wormley] Glade Press [1980]. hardcover books
1990ref. 334533London: John Murray 1990. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Duncan Grant. Illustrated in b/w 60 color plates. 97 pages of text. Slim square 4to blue boards d.w. London: John Murray 1990. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. John Murray unknown books
1978ref. 65043New York: Poetry Project 1978. Folio pp. 90 10; occasional illustration; original pictorial wrappers by Rochelle Kraut side-stapled; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum poet fine press printer and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Issue no. 7 was the last published of the 4 3 2 Review. Contributions by Herman Melville Alice Notley Paul Violi Lewis Warsh Ted Berrigan John Godfrey Allan and Cinda Kornblum Jim Hanson John Ashbury and many others. To our knowledge this is the only 'zine' to which Herman Melville contributed albeit unwittingly. Poetry Project unknown books
1995ref. 73120Seoul: The Sejong Institute 1995. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 437 1; publisher's blue paper wrappers; indent on a couple leaves from an old paperclip else fine. The Sejong Institute unknown books
2018ref. 9028025London: Bloomsbury Academic 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original illustrated vinyl over boards and spine. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover books
1968ref. 9030482London: Clarendon 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original navy cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Owner's name written on front free endpaper. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. 109 pages. Clarendon hardcover books
1845ref. 31543London: Other. Very Good. 1845. Hardcover. Sydenham Society old half-leather bindings very good condition. . Other hardcover books
