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1964réf. 571615New York: Atheneum 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Faint foxing on page edges preliminary pages and a few pages in the rear very good lacking the dust jacket. Author's first book. Atheneum hardcover books
réf. 13224California: Society of Hermits. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Artist's book formed of 5 paper leaves plus the limitation leaf with letterpress type in black printed on capillary dyed paper these leaves pasted down to a strip of capillary dyed cloth reinforced with rigid panels allowing the whole to fold into a closed state with an additional central capillary dyed cloth box containing a dyed gauze bandage upper panei with dyed paper label titled in black. Combining capillary dyed paper and cloth bound in gauze Bruises is a deeply moving work exploring the relationship between the book and the body suggestive of both the healing power of literature and the capacity for paper like bandages to absorb trauma both literally and metaphorically. Tight bright and unmarred. Cloth bandage binding unusual unfolding structure. 12mo. np. Illus. Numbered limited edition this bing 1 of 5. Signed by the author. Society of Hermits hardcover books
réf. 11232London/New York: The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This book is based on Tom Phillips' 1988 collage work 'The Class of 47' as exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery. "Tom Phillips sent copies of the 31 images to American poet Heather McHugh who wrote poems about them. Tom then took these poems and transformed them by painting out some of the words. His new text sometimes reaffirms and other times contradicts the poet's interpretation of the pictures. Each page of handmade paper contains the image expanded and revised both by hand and computer and hand painted in watercolour following the artist's prototype." Designed printed and bound by Richard Minsky. "Printed on Richard de Bas handmade paper with a Canon BJ-130 inkjet printer. The images and treatments were painted by hand in watercolours. The edition is limited to forty-seven copies bound in cloth numbered 1-47 and an edition de tete of ten copies I-X bound in leather with three additional pages coloured by Tom Phillips containing his notes to the colourist. The Portrait Works 1989 p. 14-15." publisher's statement "No litany will ever stick as fast as the class register at primary school those thirty names of serried figures in a gaslit room who benched together like tiny galley-slaves on a five year odyssey will forever haunt each other's dreams. They provide us with our first typology so little needing later extension of bully hero creep flirt swot saint and belle dame sans merci. A teacher could inflect this list with cunning insinuation: I used to await my own name to find out what the score was as one can tell from readers of football results before they get to the goals whether a team has triumphed or been crushed or has squeezed a draw waiting to hear if it was to be thrown away like a hiccup indicating that I was for the while a safe cypher or leaned upon with some dangerous almost decodable emphasis meaning watch out. Comic capital has often been made of such a recital most recently in a sinister review sketch by Rowan Atkinson. More notably one remembers Sir Michael Redgrave's hypnotic readings from Beachcomber's List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen and Giles Cooper's radio play Unman Wittering and Zygo. the corresponding names in my own class were Whiting Whittlesea and Zorn. Oh God! wrote Swift How I remember names! The list of faces is not so ordered. Though from many the labels of name have peeled off with time they will as images bubble up unbidden from the depths of sleep or will suddenly be brought to mind when a head turns in a bus queue or crush bar them not them. Just once or twice the terrible truth of mortality is presented in a face whose new augmented lineaments startle when encountered all at once without that gently gradual breaking of news one gets from one's own day by day mirrored self. Can that be Flinchecombe there whose features have been pumped up to fill a vast pneumatic head from the top of which the hair has rushed away without so much as a farewell wave Yes it can for he is saying to himself. I'm sure I know that fat and grizzled fellow shambling along there. yes. it's Phillips. never did think he'd come to much. As I played with scraps of collage for Curriculum Vitae IV whose border is a forest of faces the conjunction of random fragments of heads from various printed sources consistently threw up such darkly half-recognised physiognomies. To exorcise them to lay their ghosts somehow on paper at least I made face-fetishes of each of the thirty. Pete Morris. yes. Fred Emmett Daphne Blackwood yes. Sylvia Daniels yes. and ah yes Isabel. one by one and one of them myself fixed by paste and hustled out into the daylight of art. Where are they now Now in part here. It seemed appropriate only to use pieces of the Boy's Own or the Girl's Own Paper my constant Human Documents of engraved vocabulary whose hatchings and cross-hatchings in pre-1900 copies I got to know in those same early years of childhood from bound sets collected for war-salvage. Allen Arkwright Atwell Beard Bloomfield Bussey Callow. let us rest here in this rare reunion." Tight bright and unmarred; suite of prints bright and clean. Full black leather binding inlaid color print gilt lettering; suite of prints in portfolio with printed label. Oblong 4to. np. Illus. hand colored plates. Limited number edition this being X of X of the deluxe subset. The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky hardcover books
1982réf. 7044New York: Schocken Books 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ in Very Good Slipcase. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 82 wonderfullly detailed drawings of woodland plants in Great Britain. Tight bright and unmarred. DJ shows barest minimum of shelf/edge wear else bright and clean. Slipcase shows light shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. Grey cloth boards black ink lettering brown endpages. Small 4to. 213pp. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 68 1500. Schocken Books hardcover books
2026réf. 143383Mission B.C. Canada: Barbarian Press 2026. wrappers of Classic Crest Flax handmade paper. Barbarian Press. 8vo. wrappers of Classic Crest Flax handmade paper. unpaginated. Limited to 120 copies. A fine copy. The poems were selected by Crispin and Jan Elsted from My Flesh the Sound of Rain The Burden of Snow Intermission and The Little Yellow House and from new unpublished poems. The text was handset by Apollonia Elsted in Joanna with Duensin Titling for display and printed by Lea Sánchez Milde on Mohawk Superfine paper. Barbarian Press unknown books
2007réf. 2352022New York: Oxford University Press 2007. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 9x6x1. Reprint. Two tiny spots on top edge otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2007 Trade Paperback. xvi 572 pp. Includes two sections of black-and-white plates. "The mysterious death of the western half of the Roman Empire was one of the fundamental revolutions of history a sequence of events that profoundly changed the world. In this new major account Peter Heather challenges the traditional view of a corrupt over-civilized Christian Empire in terminal decline. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of barbarian peoples and making full use of recent archaeological discoveries and radical re-readings of classical texts he has written a thrilling startling new narrative of the period. In part an entertaining and evocative journey through the world of the fourth and fifth centuries it is also en epic tale of civilizations battling for survival. Rome fell Heather reveals not through weakness but as a result of the forces unleashed by its ferocious success. Oxford University Press paperback books
2026réf. 628608New York: Pantheon Books 2026. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 543pp. A trifle worn else fine in near fine dust jacket lightly worn along the topedge. Signed by Thompson on the title page. Pantheon Books hardcover books
2005réf. 10274Washington DC: Senate Publication 109-15 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. The Faces Of The Senate: A Pictorial Directory of United States Senators 1789 - 2005 featuring the new senator from Illinois Barack Obama. Octavo unpaginated. Black cloth title in gilt on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Clean text throughout. A complete photographic collection of senators from each state including the new class elected in 2004. A scarce text as it was given primarily as a gift to Senate members and staff. A collection of 1838 individual images of United States Senators leaving only 46 senators without an available photograph. Senate Publication 109-15 unknown books
2016réf. 627764New York: Pantheon Books 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 724pp. Black and white illustrations. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Pantheon Books hardcover books
2013réf. 2340214Hong Kong: Military History Press 2013. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rocco Keith. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition #79 of 1200 copies with bookplate hand-numbered and signed by Keith Rocco laid in. Minimal cosmetic wear. Binding tight pages clean bright and unmarked. 2013 Full-Leather. 266 pp. The highly respected French magazine 'Uniformes' proclaimed Keith Rocco an 'artist in the tradition of Remington and Detaille.' Keith Rocco's artwork has appeared on nearly every cover of 'Napoleon' the international journal of the French Revolution and Age of Napoleon Bonaparte. Thousands of readers worldwide have been enthralled by Rocco's stunning illustrations of one of the most colorful periods of military history. Rocco has won international acclaim for his depiction of the common Soldiers of the various nations that fought for and against Napoleon's France from 1796-1815. Rocco has earned this reputation by combining diligent research often working hand in hand with leading uniformologists and historians with a masterful eye and keen artistic sensibility. Few artists match Rocco's talent in handling color and light even fewer still can capture a dramatic moment so convincingly without the slightest false gesture. Military History Press hardcover books
1999réf. 2334181Jean Bruyere Kell 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 11x9x1. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by editor on title page with inscription "Best wishes." Small tear on top jacket edge ink gift note inside. 1999 Large Hardcover. xi 227 pp. Carteret County North Carolina was formed in 1722 out of Craven County. It is named in honor of Sir John Carteret who later became the Earl of Granville and one of the Lords Proprietors of North Carolina. Native inhabitants of the area were the Iroquois-speaking Tuscarora Indians. The Tuscarora Nation lived between the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers in eastern North Carolina. As early as 1706 white settlers of Huguenot German Scotch-Irish French and English descent arrived in the region. Most had migrated southward from northern American colonies rather than from Europe. Also in 1721 Quakers from Rhode Island came in family units and settled on the north side of the Newport River. Beaufort Carteret's county seat is the third oldest town in North Carolina. It was first known appropriately as Fishtown because the fishing industry was and has been an important part of the county's history. Beaufort was later named for Henry Somerset Duke of Beaufort. The largest plantations given by grants or purchased were in the central and western parts of Carteret County. Large land owners included Robert Williams William Borden and the Stanton family. Unlike other parts of North Carolina and Virginia no large pillared houses were constructed in the county; the Williams' plantation home for example was brick and plain. Carteret County participated in global trade almost from its beginning. Plantations produced goods such as tobacco grains and salted meats and fish to export to England. Lumber was also a major export due to the area's vast forests. The most significant commercial industry was naval stores - tar pitch rosin and turpentine. Portsmouth and Beaufort served as the county's major ports. Ships landed in Portsmouth and workers transferred cargo to smaller boats for transport to the mainland. However as its depth decreased Portsmouth harbor declined as a port of entry and the town was abandoned. Formal education was not a priority for the early settlers of Carteret County. Most children were preoccupied with working on the farms. Wealthier families usually sent their children outside the colony for advanced training. In the community of Hunting Quarters however the Scotch-Irish established the area's first school; it became the first accredited high school in the county. The first Anglican Church in Beaufort St. John's Parish was organized approximately in 1724. However the increasing opposition of Baptists Quakers and other denominations contributed to the decreasing number of Anglicans in Carteret County. Carteret countians have witnessed war in their backyards. Many served in the Revolutionary War and naval skirmishes occurred in the county's waters. Constructed between 1826 and 1834 Fort Macon was the site of a major battle during the Civil War. On April 25 1862 Confederate troops surrendered the fort and the Federal Government used Fort Macon as a prison following the war. Although most of the settlements were developed prior to the Civil War Morehead City was not established until 1858. It started as a railroad town and eventually attracted tourists. Today tourism has replaced agriculture and exporting as Carteret County's largest industry. - North Carolina History Jean Bruyere Kell hardcover books
2020réf. 2306646GA: Late for Dinner Press 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. Jacket spine base bumped. 2020 Hard Cover. 371 pp. "Torn between two worlds which will she embrace Elodie Harper is heir to the magical kingdom of Aluna. Trapped by an evil wizard in an illusion; Elodie grows up caught between two worlds one of magic and one of technology. As the facade of her mundane life of lies and fake smiles cracks her kingdom crumbles in the absence of its ruler. Join Elodie as she navigates both lives not knowing which to embrace and which to push into the back of her mind and forget as a bad dream. Late for Dinner Press hardcover books
1966réf. 124789New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc. Near Fine. 1966. Hardcover. An edition in Nearly Fine condition that is inscribed and signed by author Heather Ross Miller on the ffep ; Tenants of the House is a book about a family who moves into a house that they think is haunted. The family starts to see and hear things that they can't explain and they start to think that the house is haunted. The family tries to figure out what is happening and how to get rid of the ghost.; 8vo; 119 pages; Signed by Author . Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. hardcover books
2001réf. 55870Scotland: Tuckwell Press. Fine. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1862321876 . A Fine softcover first Printing of the First Edition; This book is a compilation of reminiscences from Heather Holmes David Finkelstein and others who worked at Thomas Nelson and Sons in Edinburgh from the early days of the publishing house up until its closure in 1989. The book is organized chronologically and includes accounts of the company's successes and failures as well as the personal experiences of the editors and contributors.; 8vo; 130 pages; Price . Tuckwell Press paperback books
1988réf. 57801New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. A Later Edition that has some rear scuffing else Fine ; This book is a survey of calligraphy from the twentieth century with essays on various aspects of the craft from the history of calligraphy to the use of digital tools in calligraphy. It is an excellent resource for anyone interested in calligraphy from beginners to experienced practitioners.; 4to; 128 pages . Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
1988réf. 57803New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. A Later Edition in Fine condition that has a minor indentation line vertically down the front board ; This book is about twentieth century calligraphy and its tradition. It includes exercises and tips for both beginners and experts.; 4to; 128 pages . Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
1988réf. 57800New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. A Later Edition in Fine condition that is lightly scuffed and has a marking to the upper right front edge ; .Child presents a comprehensive overview of the history techniques and applications of calligraphy covering both traditional and contemporary styles. This book is perfect for anyone interested in learning this centuries-old art form.; 4to; 128 pages . Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
1988réf. 57802New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. A Later Edition that has some general scuffing else Fine ; This book is a comprehensive guide to modern calligraphy from the origins of the craft to current trends and techniques. It covers everything from the materials needed to start practicing calligraphy to how to create beautiful letters and scripts to how to sell your work. This is the perfect guide for anyone interested in learning how to create beautiful handwritten letters or scripts or in furthering their existing skills.; 4to; 128 pages . Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
1988réf. 57799New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. A Later Edition in Fine condition ; This book is a comprehensive guide to modern calligraphy from the basics of the craft to advanced techniques. It covers everything from the materials and equipment needed to beginner exercises to in-depth exploration of more specialized techniques. The book is written by Child a respected authority on the subject and is full of informative photographs and illustrations.; 4to; 128 pages . Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
2001réf. 58978Scotland: Tuckwell Press. Fine. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1862321876 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing; This book is a collection of memories and recollections of Thomas Nelson and Sons an Edinburgh publishing house that was influential in the development of Christian fiction in the twentieth century. The book features interviews with authors editors and others who worked at the publishing house as well as rare and unpublished photographs and documents.; 8vo; 130 pages . Tuckwell Press paperback books
2001réf. 59040Scotland: Tuckwell Press. Fine. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1862321876 . A Fine first Printing of the First Edition; The book is a collection of memories and reminiscences from the editors and contributors of Thomas Nelson and Sons an Edinburgh publishing house that closed in 1994. The book covers the history of the company its employees and the publishing industry in Scotland.; 8vo; 130 pages . Tuckwell Press paperback books
2001réf. 55319Scotland: Tuckwell Press. Fine. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1862321876 . A first printing of the first edition in unblemished condition; Thomas Nelson and Sons: Memories of an Edinburgh Publishing House is a unique book that tells the story of Thomas Nelson and Sons one of the most influential and successful publishing houses in the United States. The book is composed of essays by various authors including Holmes Finkelstein and historian Douglas Brinkley and it offers a fascinating look at the history of the publishing house and its many notable authors and books.; 8vo; 130 pages . Tuckwell Press paperback books
2007réf. 13446New York: Bloomsbury. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1596910291 . A beautiful first printing of this first edition copy in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket SIGNED by author Heather Ewing directly on the title page; In the mid 1830s Englishman James Smithson had left all his fortune to found in Washington '"an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men". Heather Ewing masterfully portraits Smithson and the birth of one of the largest museums and research complexes in the world at the beginning of the 21st century ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Bloomsbury hardcover books
1741réf. 14790Amsterdam: F. Changuion 1741. Hardcover. g. 2 volumes. 12mo. 487pp. 580pp. Contemporary brown leather with red title plate and gilt embossed decoration to spines. Raised bands. Surface hairline cracks to spines. Minor wear to head and tail of spines. Corners rubbed and worn. Scuffing some staining and welling to boards. Modern marbled end papers. Red page edges. Jean de la Bruyere 1645-1696 was French satiric moralist who is best known for the work at hand Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle first published in 1688; The Characters or the Manners of the Age with The Characters of Theophrastus which is considered to be one of the masterpieces of French literature. In French. In overall good condition. The first volume dates 1741 while the second volume dates 1739. F. Changuion hardcover books
1976réf. 104923New York: Pentalic Corporation 1976. stiff paper wrappers. Calligraphy. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. Revised paperback edition. A near fine copy. Survey of calligraphy in Britian Europe and America. Pentalic Corporation unknown books
