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Bruxelles, Paris: Librairie nouvelle, librairie universelle, 1887. Livre. Très bon. Demi-reliure à coins. Ed. originale. in-8°. Bruxelles, Librairie nouvelle, Paris, Librairie universelle, 1887. Forme le 10e numéro de la 1re série de "Poètes et prosateurs, anthologie contemporaine des écrivains français et belges". 19,5 x 12 cm (R), in-8, 16 pp., reliure moderne de demi-maroquin bordeaux à coins, dos lisse avec titre en long, couvertures conservées. Edition originale des textes en prose ("Plainte d'automne", "Frisson d'hiver", "La gloire" et "Le Nénuphar blanc"). Les poèmes ("Les fenêtres", "Les fleurs", "Brise marine", Soupir", "Sainte" et "Quatre sonnets") avaient été édités la même année dans l'édition photo-lithographique "Les Poésies de…
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LE LIVRE BLANC: Paris (Éditions du Signe) 1930.
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COCTEAU, JEAN. Le livre blanc. Paris (Éditions du Signe) 1930.
4:o (about 285x225 mm.). 18 (17 incl fr. p.) coloured plates Jean Cocteau and one facsimile plate of Cocteau's handwriting.
Uncut in original wrappers, loose in somewhat soiled original clothbacked paper boards. In a worn, soiled, and somewhat damaged paper case. Edition printed in 380 (of 416) numbered copies, this is number 65.
Check from 1930 enclosed, the sum of 4500 francs.
4:o (about 285x225 mm.). 18 (17 incl fr. p.) coloured plates Jean Cocteau and one facsimile plate of Cocteau's handwriting.
Uncut in original wrappers, loose in somewhat soiled original clothbacked paper boards. In a worn, soiled, and somewhat damaged paper case. Edition printed in 380 (of 416) numbered copies, this is number 65.
Check from 1930 enclosed, the sum of 4500 francs.
- Bookseller Jean Skarstedt Paris Stockholm (FR)
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Album de vers et de prose
by Mallarmé, Stéphane
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Armata, A Fragment, Fifth Edition [With] The Second Part Of Armata, Third Edition [With] Appendix [New To The Third Edition]
by Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823, First Baron Erskine)
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London: John Murray, 1817. First Edition Thus . Original Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8 3/8 " Tall. (I), 210; (I), Viii, 214. Quarter Calf, 6 Compartments, Black Morocco Title Label. First Combined And Complete Edition, With Fifth Edition Of The First Part, Third Edition Of The Second Part, Including The Appendix At The End Of The Second Part, First Printed Here (In This Third Edition Of Part Ii.) Original Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Boards, With Preliminary And Final Blanks, No Ads, No Pages Between The Two Parts Except The Title Page For Part Ii. Wear To Edges, Joints And Hinges Solid, Joints Beginning To Crack At Edges, Fraying To Tips. Ancient Ownership Name Of George Wood, No Other Names Or Marks. This Edition, With The First Printing Of The Appendix, Is Quite Scarce.
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Charlotte and the White Horse [SIGNED early Sendak]
by Krauss, Ruth; Sendak, Maurice (illus)
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1955, first printing. [Hanrahan A18]. 12mo., 5 3/8" x 6 3/4", unpaginated 24pp., color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Sendak's first all-color illustrated book. Black cloth and pictorial paper covered boards, floral design decorative endpapers in color. Inscribed by Sendak to 5 year-old Sing-Si Schwartz on half-title. (Sing-Si later became a fine-arts photographer, and presumably photographed the laid in Sendak illustrations) : "Jul 70' , For Sing-Si, hello: Maurice Sendak" Laid in is a 1955 publication notice of the book in "The Villager", Greenwich Village, NY, Dec 15, 1955 featuring a photo of Sendak holding a dog. Three 4" x 6" duotone prints of Sendak's illustrations for the book laid in. Book is fine with no wear, dust jacket very good, $2 price on flap, mild age toning, darkening fade along the spine with…
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Another adventure of Sherlock Holmes. - Longmans Colonial Library edition
by DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN
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Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain…
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [SIGNED, Limited Edition of 525]
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor and Willy Pogany (illus.)
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NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1910. Signed first edition, limited to 525 numbered copies in England and America, #137, signed by Pogany on limitation page. Full brown morocco with gilt cover design, gilt spine titles, top edge gilting, pictorial end papers, sewn in silk bookmark. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", printed on Japan vellum, unpaginated, Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus illustrations in color and line throughout the text. A stunning work. Some scuffing, wear along the edges of boards, small, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, internally near fine, pages clean, no foxing or markings, page block crisp, all plates present, binding tight. Rare.. Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Hard. Very Good. Illus. by Pogany, Will. Folio. Numbered, Limited Edition.
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A DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES
by Silva, Penny (ed.) Nelson Mandela
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First edition, limited issue of 100 numbered copies issued signed by Mandela on the title page. Copy #42. Published to benefit the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Edited with a Preface by Penny Silva. Dark blue full morocco, gilt lettering, satin pagemarker, limitation page. Issued without dustjacket. Cloth-covered slipcase. Slipcase with one corner with slight bump; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition. The first dictionary of South African English, mapping the development and changes of "that variety of English which is particular to South Africa."
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA. THE BRUTAL ODYSSEY OF AN OUTLAW JOURNALIST 1968 - 1976
by Thompson, Hunter S.
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition. Limited issue signed by Thompson on the front free endpage as issued. Leather-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, all edges gilt, moire pastedowns and endpages, satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Limitation not specified (purportedly about three hundred copies). Introduction by David Halberstam. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Rear board bottom edge with trifle bump; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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The Long Valley.
by Steinbeck, John.
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Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the front pastedown in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, and a short closed edge tear at the head of the spine. A collectible copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck fiction. This volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically;…
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Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche: Traduction de Filleau de Saint-Martin ; avec un essai sur la vie et sur les ouvrages de Cervantes, par Auger de l'Académie française
by CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
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Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.En 8vo, 6 vol.: I: 425p. + retrato de autor; II: 451p. + 1 lámina; III: 443p. + 1 lámina; IV: 460p. + 1 lámina; V: 455p. + 1 lámina; y VI: 458p.+ 1 lámina. Encuadernados en piel de época, con ciertas reparaciones. Textos con algunas manchas de oxido, pero en general limpio en buen estado de conservación.Bonitas láminas de Deveria. Ex-libris de Bibliothèque de Chateau Valencay y de Joaquín García Pimentel.
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PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
by RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates; BARRIE. J. M
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Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1906. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Illustrated with a colour frontis and forty nine full colour plates, all mounted onto thick art paper pages at back of book, each one with a printed tissue guard. Decorative endpapers with map of Kensington Gardens. A near fine, bright and clean copy throughout in original russet cloth binding with gilt stamped decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Very minor rubbing to hinges and a small bump to the lower front board at the outer corner, but overall a beautiful clean copy of this classic. Among the very best of Rackham's work.
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LE LIVRE BLANC
by Cocteau, Jean
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Erotika Bilbion [Bernard Laville], 1970. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good. 12mo. 119 pp. Illustrations by Cocteau. From the library of Patrick J. Kearney, with his small name sticker at the bottom of the verso of the front cover. . 5.
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Le Livre Blanc
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Peter Owen Ltd, 2000. Paperback. New. new edition. 144 pages. 7.00x4.75x0.25 inches.
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Le Livre Blanc.
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London: Peter Owen, 1990. Second paperback edition, with additional illustrations. 8vo (21cm by 14cm), 77pp. Text illustrations. Original laminated card wrappers. There is some minor spotting to the edges of the text block, else this book is in very good condition. ISBN 072060821X
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Saint Monkey (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Townsend, Jacinda
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Bloody Sunrise
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Gold
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Quelques Optimistes.
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Christopher Blake
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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Palmares
by Jones, Gayl
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Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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