Recent Arrivals from Rare Books Honolulu
Recent Arrivals from Rare Books Honolulu
Hawaiian Folk Tales - No. 13 of the 'Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation' (1933) - 18 Tales in HAWAIIAN and ENGLISH, -
by Mary Pukui
- Condition
- Used - near very good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Stapled wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£195.12
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Poughkeepsie.: Vassar College, 1933. 1st edition. Stapled wrappers. near very good/no dj as issued. VERY SCARCE: Hawaiian Folk Tales, Third Series, published by Vassar College, 1933, 9'x6"
No. 13 of the 'Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation'
No. 3 of a series of 3 publications. Here pages 126-185. With 18 Folk-Tales in HAWAIIAN and ENGLISH, selected and translated by… Read more about this item Item Price
£195.12
Na-Kupuna, The Hawaiian Legend of Creation (1896)
by Julien Darwin Hayne
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- Used
- Edition
- !st edition
- Published
- 1896
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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£298.65
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San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896. !st edition. Hardcover. Pages illuminated by Viggo Jacobsen.. William Doxey, San Francisco, 1896, 8.5" x 6.25". 83 pages, printed on recto only, all with illustrations (photo and artwork collages) by Viggo Jacobsen and text. Relief decoration on front and back cover. The one on the front cover is completely gilded, spine is blank. All… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dictionnaire de la Révolution française. Institutions, hommes et faits - in fine binding
by Boursin (Elphège) - Challamel (Augustin)
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1893
- Binding
- Leather bound Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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£179.19
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Paris: Furne, Jouvet & Cie, 1893. 1st edition. Leather bound Hardcover. Dictionnaire de la Révolution française. Institutions, hommes et faits - (Dictionary of the French Revolution. Institutions, men and facts)
Published by Furne, Jouvet & Cie, 1893 vol.i n-4 of , VII- 935 pp.
Bound in well-made red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt small-iron boxes. In… Read more about this item Item Price
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The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Rochester (1717)
by Richard Rawlinson -
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1717
- Binding
- Leatherbound Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£211.05
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London: Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1717. 1st edition. Leatherbound Hardcover. Very good/no dj as issued. Full title: "The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Rochester. Containing
I. The Local Statutes of that Church.
II. The Inscriptions upon the Monuments, Tombs, and Grave-Stones.
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De Occulta Philosophia in 4 vol. set: Vol 1 - Natural Magic, Vol 2 - Celestial Magic, Vol 3 - Ceremonial Magic, Vol 4 - The Fourth Book
by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Ltd. Black Letter Press Edition
- Published
- 2020
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£274.76
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Hannover: Black Letter Press, 2020. Ltd. Black Letter Press Edition. Hardcover. NEW all four books still in publisher's shring wrap.
Published by Black Letter Press, 2020, 4 volumes
Translated and introduced by Paul Summers Young; Cover Design by Alice Rocchetti
Hardcover bound in Absinth-Green Geltex ;in Wine-Red Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin; in Blue Fedrigoni Imitlin; in Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin
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The Esther Scroll of 1746 - Facsimile of a 1746 manuscript scroll, almost 21 feet long
by Falk Wiesemann (commentary) Wolf Leib Katz Poppers (scribe in 1746)
- Condition
- NEW in original box
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2013
- Binding
- Scroll in wooden case
- ISBN
- 9783836517782
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£497.75
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Los Angeles: Publisher Taschen America Llc, 2013. First edition. Scroll in wooden case. NEW in original box/no dj as issued. Taschen America, text in English, German, French, Hebrew.
Limited Collector's Edition of 1,746 copies, with a gilt-edged commentary volume
Edition of 1,746. Facsimile scroll almost 21 feet long, in a handcrafted walnut-veneer display case 23 x 13… Read more about this item Item Price
£497.75
Richard Serra: Drawings-Work Comes Out of Work
by Eckhard Schneider, James Lawrence, Richard Serra
- Condition
- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- NEW
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9783865604163
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£78.84
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Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. NEW, still in shrink-wrap.Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2008 IN ENGLISH, 234, pages, 10 x 1.25 x 12 inches.
Ships from Hawaii.
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With 2007's monumental retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Richard Serra's work in steel sculpture was affirmed as a decisive contribution to contemporary art. For… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Beast 666 - the secret life of The Wickedest Man in the World: Aleister Crowley. - Limited to 111 copies
by John Symonds
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- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- Full red leather, marbled endpapers limited to 111 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£278.74
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK: Hellfire Club. Full red leather, marbled endpapers limited to 111 copies. Hardcover. NEW/no dj as issued. 618 pages with colour plates, Crown Quarto: 250mm x 180mm. ---
Reincarnated from an ancient Egyptian Priest, Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, self-proclaimed prophet of the modern age of fierce war and individual freedom, world-class mountaineer, novelist, psychologist, sexual revolutionary, artist, mystical… Read more about this item Item Price
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Yeats the Tarot and the Golden Dawn - Limited Edition Hardcover in Quarter Leather and Moire Silk
by Kathleen Rainie
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- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- Edition limited to 220 copies
- Published
- 2024
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£131.41
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK: Hellfire Club, 2024. Edition limited to 220 copies. Hardcover. NEW/no dj as issued. NEW, published by Hell Fire Club, 78 pages, 10 x 7.5 inches.
This book is limited to 220 copies, quarter bound in leather with moire silk sides, gilt lettering, paper title label to front board, black endpapers. GOLDEN DAWN SERIES.
… Read more about this item Item Price
£131.41
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AMOR DIVINA - Limited Edition Hardcover in safran Cloth
by Aleister Crowley
- Condition
- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- no year
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£139.37
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no place: Privately printed, bound at the Hell Fire Club, no year. Limited Edition. Hardcover. NEW/no dj as issued. The edition has been privately printed and has been bound at the Hell Fire Club.
One of only 444 limited edition hardcover bound in safran cloth. This is number 208.
Book is in new unread condition, 5×7,… Read more about this item Item Price
£139.37
The Redemption of Time - A Three-Body Problem novel, signed by author
by Baoshu
- Condition
- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- NEW
- Edition
- Signed, limited edition
- Published
- 2020
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£99.55
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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020. Signed, limited edition. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Subterranean Press, 2020. 219 pages, 10x7 inches. Signed by author Baoshu, translated by Ken Liu. Li. No. 334 of an edition limited to 500.
Fine Jacket: Fine Edition: NEW, appears unread.
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Cixin Liu's award-winning trilogy Remembrance of Earth's… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Story of an Hour - ltd. No Reply Press Edition
by KATE CHOPIN
- Condition
- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- Edition limited to 150
- Published
- 2024
- Binding
- Chapbook in wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£99.55
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Portland Oregon: No Reply Press, 2024. Edition limited to 150. Chapbook in wrappers. NEW/no dj as issued. No Reply Press, The Story of an Hour, 2024
BY KATE CHOPIN
An early exemplar of feminist literature, The Story of an Hour follows Mrs. Mallard as she learns of her husband's death in a freak accident. Grief quickly… Read more about this item Item Price
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LANGUAGE - The limited NO REPLY PRESS edition of Morrison's Nobel Lecture, with woodblocks by Elizabeth Catlett
by Toni Morrison
- Condition
- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj's as issued
- Edition
- Edition limited to 400
- Published
- 2023
- Binding
- Wrappers
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£91.59
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Portland Oregon: No Reply Press, 2023. Edition limited to 400. Wrappers. NEW/no dj's as issued. Elizabeth Catlett. No Reply Press, 2023
BY TONI MORRISON, WITH WOODBLOCKS BY ELIZABETH CATLETT
At the pinnacle of world literature, in her lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison used her platform to urge care with words.
"Language,"… Read more about this item Item Price
£91.59
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The limited NO REPLY PRESS Science Fiction Trilogy (Hardbound) - The Last Question - The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - The Men Return
by Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Vance
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- NEW
- Jacket Condition
- no dj's as issued
- Edition
- Edition limited to 350
- Published
- 2023
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£995.50
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Portland Oregon: No Reply Press, 2023. Edition limited to 350. Hardcover. NEW/no dj's as issued. Rockwell Kent, Clive Knights, Karol Pomykała. The Science Fiction Trilogy | Hardbound
No Reply's Science Fiction Trilogy, three editions showcasing three of the genre's greatest short stories:
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, with the woodcuts of Rockwell Kent
The Ones… Read more about this item Item Price
£995.50
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4 vols Cicero orations, Delphin eds. 1684
by Cicero
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- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj's as issued
- Published
- 1684
- Binding
- Leatherbound
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£696.85
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Parisiis [i.e. Paris]: Dionysium Thierry, Simonis Benar, 1684. Leatherbound. very good/no dj's as issued. Full title: "M.T. Ciceronis Orationes. Interpretatione & Notis illustravit Carolus de Merouville, Societatis Jesu; jussu Christianissimi Regis ad usum Serenissimi Delphini" Tomus I - III (complete) --
Parisiis [i.e. Paris], Dionysium Thierry, Simonis Benar. 3 volumes. Text in Latin. 590, 595,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Oeuvres de Rabelais: Avec une Vie de l'Auteur, des Notes et un Glossaire, par Louis Moland One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare
by François Rabelais, Gustave Doré (Illustrator)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Published
- 1883
- Binding
- Custom bound in full Vellum
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£457.93
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Paris: Garnier Frères, 1883. 2nd edition. custom bound in full Vellum. Near Fine. Gustave Dore. Garnier Frères, Paris, IN FRENCH, (no date, but according the Bibliographie de la France, the 3rd edition of 1883. Most dealers list this edition as the 2nd edition of 1873, but that one is bigger, at almost 13x17". The 1873 edition has 719… Read more about this item Item Price
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RUSSIAN CATALOG, "Agricultural Equipment" (1963) 116 photos of machinery plus matching pages with description and specifications. Text translates very good with Google Translate app for phones
- Condition
- Used - good to very good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£195.12
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Moscow, 1963. 1st edition. hardcover. good to very good/no dj as issued. Moscow, 1963, Hardcover
binding good, pages very good
Catalog for "Agricultural Equipment" Moskau, 1963, oblong, 11.5 x 7 inches.
The catalog has a not very professionally repaired spine, but does the job. No endpapers and no title page. No information of publisher or… Read more about this item Item Price
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Le Songe de Poliphile ou Hypnérotomachie (1883) No. 171 of only 410 copies -
by Francesco Colonna (attributed to)
- Condition
- Used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Published
- 1883
- Binding
- Leatherbound Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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£553.50
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Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1883. Leatherbound Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. 180 wood engravings by A. Prunaire after the Kerver edition of 1546.. Paris, Isidore Liseux,1883,
1st edition in French, Hardcover, 2 volumes. Translated into French by Claudius Popelin. Illustrated with more than 180 wood engravings by A. Prunaire after the Kerver edition of 1546. (8vo) half… Read more about this item Item Price
£553.50
François Rabelais, Gustave Doré (Illustrator) Oeuvres de Rabelais: Texte Collationné sur les Éditions Originales. Avec une Vie de l'Auteur, des Notes et un Glossaire, par Louis Moland One of Gustave Doré's finest creations, very rare and sought-after in large paper
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£434.04
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Paris, Garnier Frères, no date, but 1873, Vellum -bound Hardcover
2nd edition, Near Fine
Garnier Frères, (no date, but geberally believed to be the 2nd edition of 1873) ) 2 vols. large in-4 of [2] ff, xlvii-[1] pp., 584 pp. ; [2] ff, 632 pp. 12½x9¾", (31.5x24.5 cm), full vellum lettered in black and red, top edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society Formerly Royal Colonial Institute A monumental and comprehensive bibliography that took 7 years to catalogue and print
by Evans Lewin
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A monumental and comprehensive bibliography that took 7 years to catalogue and print.
Royal Empire Society, London, 1930-1937
This covers all aspect of the former Colonies, and catalogues books, ephemera and articles. An invaluable reference resource on Colonial Rule.
This is a scarce first edition. Although there are modern facsimiles (which are offered for hundreds of dollars)… Read more about this item Item Price
£274.76
