Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Paintings by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek - 1971

New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1982 Holt, Rinehart Winston TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing **SIGNED** directly on the front page. Though ex-library a very sold copy but with the usual wear including a very faded stamp at the top page edges. It is in VG/VG condition. The gray boards are very clean with very minor edge wear. a crease in the spine enad just a bit of a lean. Inside there has been reinforcement fo the endpages and a bit of wrinkling on the ffep. There is a white tape covering what was probably a library stamp not affecting any print. The text is clean and tight. The unclipped DJ shows very minor wear at the edges, corners and spine ends. Still an very rare true first!! **Brenbooks specializes in first edition mysteries, many signed! **BONUS** Receive the 1950 Rinehart First Edition of her father's 4th novel "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in Vg/Vg condition. It is beautifully **SIGNED & INSCRIBED**… Read More

The Roycroft Printing Shop. New York. 1896. First edition, pirated by Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft movement. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "I repudiate all responsibility for this bowdlerised piracy. Elbert Hubbard, who perpetrated it, is dead. Why not bury it with him? G. Bernard Shaw. 27/5/22." Additionally inscribed by Hubbard on the front free endpaper, "To Leonard D. Abbott with all good wishes from his friend Elbert Hubbard." Original cloth-backed boards. Housed in a blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. A fine copy.

Hardcover Condition:Fine. Slipcase Condition: VG. Limited Edition (1 of 25 lettered copies signed by Monroe Wheeler). Twelve Fables of Aesop narrated by Glenway Wescott, illustrated with 18 linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi, designed and printed in three colors (black, gray, and red) on Rives mould-made paper by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press, New York, from hand-set Emerson type and from the artist's original blocks. The edition is limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, all signed by Mr. Frasconi, Mr. Wescott, and Mr. Blumenthal. This copy is one of the 25 lettered copies (copy number "F"). In addition to the other three signatures, it is signed by Monroe Wheeler. In 1935 Wheeler was employed by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). He was on the Library Committee and in three years he was Director of Membership and the following year Director of Publications. In 1940 MOMA created the role of Director of Exhibitions and Wheeler was the first person to hold the post.… Read More

Madison: The Sixties Press, 1967 First printing of the first bilingual, English/Spanish edition. Signed and dated, in year of publication, by Robert Bly directly on the front endpage: "Best Wishes / Robert Bly / Dec 20, 67." Toning to spine and cover margins and a small stain to lower front fold, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

George Bernard Shaw: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War.Inscribed and Signed by the author, G. Bernard Shaw: Inscribed to Arthur Brentano by Bernard Shaw. 11th Feb. 1920.First Edition, Published by Brentanos, New York, 1919, a week earlier than simultaneous edition in London.Inscribed to Arthur Brentano (1858–1944), President of the Brentanos, at the time, the largest bookselling firm in the world.Inserted, the handwritten by G. Bernard Shaw shipping address of Arthur Brentano, on the part of the package wrapping.

Ultramarine Press, 1988. First. Hardbound. a fine bright copy. Here offered is copy "S". of an edition of 150, this is one of 26 lettered copies bound in full leather and signed by Rice. This edition contains an original lithograph signed by the artist, Ron Walotsky. This illustration was not in the trade edition published by Knopf. [additionally, the cover illustration for this the full leather issue is an original illustration by Walotsky].

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. First edition. Hard cover. Reprinted, with the author's additions, from the Athenaeum. A posthumous publication edited by De Morgan's widow. Published London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. 8vo., vii, [1 erratum], 511, [1 colophon], illustrated with tables, drawings within the text, plus Longman's Catalog of September, 1877 appended [30pp.]. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor's copy with his signature and bookplate. Tylor was Fellow of the Royal Society, the founder of cultural anthropology and the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford. This copy of "Paradoxes" was presented to Oxford University by his wife upon his death in 1917, with a commemorative bookplate: "From the Library of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, KNT., D.C.L., F.R.S., The first Reader and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford. Presented to the Radcliffe Trustees by Dame Anna Rebecca Tylor, June, 1917." Blue cloth with gilt spine titles, gray endpapers.… Read More

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titles in dark blue. Near Fine with light edge wear and light toning to cloth, light insecting to edge of page block. In a Near Fine dust jacket with price intact, though with a small ink notation near price on flap and faint surface indents to front panel, else a very lovely example. Scarce signed.

Berlin: Chovevei Hashira Ha'ivrit, 1923. SPECIAL limited and Numbered Edition . Original Vellum. Fine. 8vo. Joseph Budko. Text in Hebrew. Complete Set of four volumes: Vol. 1: "Shirim" (Poems), Vol. 2: "Seforim Divrei Sifrut" (Literature), Vol. 3: "Targum Mekutzar shel Don Kishot, Ish Lamansha le-Miguel de Cervantes" (Shortened translation of Don Quichotte, Man of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes). Vol. 4: "Targum Wilhelm Tell le-Friedrich Schiller" (Translation of Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller). Volumes 1 and 2 are original works by Bialik in Hebrew, volumes 3 and 4 are Bialik's translations . FIRST EDITION ( of which the regular edition of 3000 copies was published in green cloth binding). With book decoration and 19 original wood cuts by Joseph Budko and an etching-portrait of Bialik by Max Liebermann This work was published in the year of Bialik's 50th birthday, during the very few years Bialik spent in Berlin between 1921- 1924 after… Read More

London: William Heinemann. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. c.1916. Limited Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Tail fore corners bumped, some light rubbing at the hinges, light overall foxing to the free endpapers with a bit on the pastedowns, light dampstain at the tail of the front free endpaper and the next two leaves, a sliver of unobtrusive foxing along the fore edge of numerous pages. Light scuffing to the cloth of the rear cover. The slipcase has light rubbing to all edges, with wear to the head and tail of the leather.; These 13 collected tales represent the traditions of the Allied nations of World War I and, arguably, amount to uplifting, positive propaganda, possibly for the young and most certainly for their parents. English, "Scotch," Welsh, Irish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Siberian, and Belgian folk tales and "fairy" tales recount the meek besting the mighty and both people and the supernaturals working toward the common good.… Read More