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1894réf. 22678London: Lawrence and Bullen 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/1000. 4to. vol.1xxvi276pp. vol.2ix323pp. Gray iridescent cloth decorative gold stamps on front boards gold lettering to spines. Each volume has b/w photogravure engravings with protective Japanese tissue guards. frontispiece First published in 1583 under the title Le piacevoli notti "the pleasant nights" this two-volume collection of fairy tales was written by the Italian writer and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Straparola. It was modeled after the Decamerone by Boccaccio and depicts the participants of a 13-night party on the island of Murano and the wild tales they tell. lt is also known as The Facetious Nights of Straparola. Volume one has nine b/w photogravure engravings including the frontis volume two has nine including frontis and all with protective Japanese tissue guards. Head and tails of spines and edges rubbed and bumped light soiling. Age yellowing to pages acid transfers from engravings mark the tissue guards. Binding in good interior in very good condition. Lawrence and Bullen hardcover books
1895réf. 264510London: Lawrence & Bullen 1895. hardcover. Translated into English by W. G. Waters and illustrated by E.R. Hughes. 2 vols. large 4to mauve silk binding a little dusty. London: Lawrence & Bullen 1895. Very good . One of 1000 numbered copies for England and America. Lawrence & Bullen unknown books
réf. 179965London: Published for the Trade. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No date. Text clean. Hinges broken. Spine slightly darkened on red cloth cover. One inch tear on bottom end of spine at the seam. Title on paper on spine. Gold gilt on top outer edges of pages. Published for the Trade hardcover books
1907réf. 40983Salem: Salem Press 1907. Salem: Salem Press 1907. 62 pp. b/w plates and map Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society XV: Fine condition in original printed wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Salem Press unknown books
2024réf. 70885New York: Picador 2024. First edition. Paperback. New. 354pp. Duodecimo 21cm. Pictoral wraps. "The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935 Zden k Koubek one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston also assigned female at birth announced that he too was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions what could have been a push toward equality became instead through a confluence of bureaucracy war and sheer happenstance the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans intersex and gender nonconforming athletes. In The Other Olympians Michael Waters uncovers for the first time the gripping true stories of Koubek Weston and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era. With dogged research and cinematic flair Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities in order to pull off the Berlin Games a partnership that ultimately influenced the IOC's nearly century-long obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender." From the Publisher. Picador paperback books
1990réf. 367451Boston: David R. Godine 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 300pp. Gray cloth boards. Illustrated from color photographs. Very good with slightly bowed boards and bumped corners in a very good spine faded dust jacket with rubbing a few small chips and tears along the edges. David R. Godine hardcover books
réf. 199620Riverhead Books 2014-09-16. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x2. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Dust jacket price not clipped. Not a remainder copy. Riverhead Books hardcover books
2014réf. 9021879New York: Penguin 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. Penguin hardcover books
réf. 242466ND. Hardcover. Good. Good Book spine and cover edges faded spine ends starting to fray. hardcover books
1898réf. 132731England: Privately Printed 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited. Very good plus. Hardcover is slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners gilt top foredges gold stamping on front cover and spines pages slightly browned #243 of 1000 sets. Privately Printed hardcover books
1897réf. 67671London: Lawrence and Bullen Ltd. Good. 1897. Hardcover. #247 of 600 copies. 312 pages some untrimmed unopened. 11 1/2" x 7 3/4" red cloth covers with gilt stamping. The spine is sunned and toned. the covers show some discoloration and rubbing and fraying at the spine ends and cover corners. The front hinge is cracked and the contents show some light toning- otherwise this is a complete bright copy. Good. . Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. hardcover books
1968réf. 155455San Francisco CA: Mount Vernon Press 1968. First edition. Softcover. 45 pages. A collection of poems printed in an edition of 500 copies. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some foxing in a good only dust jacket with some foxing and some edge tears as well. Signed by Waters. Mount Vernon Press unknown books
1936réf. 57997New York: The New York Theatre Program Corporation 1936. Pamphlet. 24p. 9.25x6.75 inch wraps unpaginated ads and filler a little rubbed staples just faintly begun to rust. Laid in a sepia supplement-mag photoclip of Lillie. No pictures of Waters. The New York Theatre Program Corporation unknown books
1951réf. 120396San Francisco: Curran Theatre Management 1951. 28p. 5.75x8.75 inches who's who illustrated ads photo of Waters and Betty Lou Holland "1951" penned above the title on cover else very good in stapled pictorial wraps featuring cover photo of Ethel Waters from the production. Production directed by Harold Clurman. Curran Theatre Management unknown books
1852réf. 29015001Cincinnati OH 1852. General wear. Inscription on front cover. Damage to back strip. A textbook only sold by subscription that seeks to teach the reader arithmetic and world geography by using verse often rhyming verse to help the reader memorize the important terms and formulas. For example in describing the divisions of land the following poem is used: "Of land and its divisions read the stories; Peninsulas Continents Islands Promontories And Isthmuses and Capes and Mountains high Volcanoes Shores and Deserts wet and dry." The book covers both the technically terms in geography meridians tropics latitude longitude etc. and all continents and countries of the world. Additionally they provided some historical and cultural information on the countries as well such as information on the construction of the Great Wall in China and that Holland is one of the most populous districts on the globe. Numerous black and white illustration accompany the text both in the form of maps and illustrations on the geographical and architectural wonders of each locality described. At the end of the book there are six pages of the "Rules of Arithmetic In Verse." Discussed in this section is everything from subtraction to multiplication and decimal fractions to compound interest. Front cover title: "The Poetical Geography with the Rules of Arithmetic in Verse." Inscribed on front cover and inside cover with "Henry Alcott Anthony Rd." 80 pages. Yellow illustrated covers. Measures 9" x 6 1/4". To view this item please click on the following link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/apfB1nLUVFtsZgDg6. unknown books
1848réf. 69716Milwaukee: Wilson & King 1848. First edition 8vo pp. v 2 8-96; original printed yellow wrappers; text somewhat foxed wrappers curled at the edges; good and sound or better. An innovation in education whereby the lessors are given in verse. The poetical geography is "made to accompany any of the common school atlases" and the sections on arithmetic and English history are also given in verse. "This work is sold only by subscription and cannot be obtained at any bookstore in the United States. Wilson & King unknown books
1970réf. 274590New York: Pathfinder Press 1970. Pamphlet. 23p. stapled wraps first printing 3.5x8.5 inches previous owner's name penned on first page else very good condition. A Merit pamphlet. Pathfinder Press unknown books
1970réf. 56309NY: Pathfinder Press 1970. First printing. Tall 12mo pp. 23. Paper wraps. A nice copy. Waters was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. Pathfinder Press unknown books
1970réf. 87203New York: Pathfinder Press 1970. Pamphlet. 23p. stapled wraps first printing 3.5x8.5 inches very good condition. A Merit pamphlet. Pathfinder Press unknown books
1988réf. 10193New York: Film at the Public 1988. Letter-sized corner-stapled booklet 21.5 x 28 cm. 22 unnumbered pages. Printed on pale yellow paper. Illustrated. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. An unusual cookbook produced on the occasion of a festival of films directed by the great novelist playwright and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol 1895-1974. The nine film retrospective was presented by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater. Some light age-toning to the paper stock; tiny bit of wear to the edges otherwise fine. Very scarce. OCLC locates one copy. Film at the Public unknown books
1852réf. 82443New York: Cornish Lamport & Co 1852. First American Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's original dark blue embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine with elaborate blindstamping to boards. 238pp. Wear rubbing and scuffing to extremities with book board showing through the cloth at corners and edges fraying and loss to spine ends not interfering with the title in addition there is a cosmetic split to the cloth of the front spine hinge. A good serviceable copy with some conspicuous wear. Internally clean rear inner hinge split two previous ownerships in pencil to the prelims with an additional pencil name to page 22. Some thumbing to prelims and with a pale damp stain to the lower front corner of the first 20pp or so. Perhaps not the most beautiful example of this scarce and sought after title to surface but a legitimate rarity nonetheless. This first US edition although of dubious legality predates the official first edition of this work by 4 years having been collected from US magazine publications syndicating from the Edinburgh Review and bolted together into book form. One of the very earliest fictional police procedurals and an early contributor to the enduring mystique of Scotland Yard. Cornish, Lamport & Co unknown books
1967réf. TB32337New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press 1967. First Edition. First Printing Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a blind embossed compass rose on the front board. A quarto of 11 1/2 by 9 inches. In very good unclipped dust jacket with a 3 1/2 long rent to the rear panel and with a dampness stain to the spine edge of the rear panel which did not migrate to the rear board. 478 pages including an index glossary and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and facsimile reproductions throughout. Yale University Press hardcover books
1967réf. 95925New Haven:: Yale Univeristy Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. A study of the first English and French printed sailing directions. With facsimile reproductions. First edition. Foxing on top and fore edges else very good in a very good foxing on verso dust jacket. . Yale Univeristy Press, hardcover books
1967réf. 9010536New Haven: Yale University Press 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Yale University Press hardcover books
1967réf. BL2333New Haven and London:: Yale University Press 1967. 1967. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. xv 478 pp. Frontis. 14 illustrations including fold-outs 3 tables glossary index. Dark blue cloth blind stamped cover illustration gilt-stamped blue spine label dust-jacket; jacket worn. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Through a friendship that he developed with the wealthy American sportsman former wartime naval officer and book collector Henry C. Taylor Waters began his studies of the history of navigation. He published "The Rutters of the Sea" in 1967 and the "Art of Navigation in England and Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times" in 1958 books that Taylor had instigated as well as financially supported. In 1960 Waters became head of Navigation and Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum. There he played an important role in converting the Old Royal Observatory Greenwich into a museum in 1967. He served as secretary of the National Maritime Museum from 1968 to 1971 and then became deputy director from 1971 to 1978. Retiring from the civil Service in 1978 at the age of 67 he held two visiting professorships a Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum and a fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library. Wikip. Extra postage will apply. Yale University Press, 1967. hardcover books
