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Recent Arrivals from The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
Printed portrait, black and white, of Viswanathan Anand at the chess board
by Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (1969- )
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- 2007
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£19.78
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Printed black and white portrait of the former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2")
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and he has the eighth-highest peak FIDE rating of all time.… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Unkindness of Ravens
by Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930-2015)
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- Used - Very Good to fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 1985
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- 9780394546032
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- 1
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£5.93
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245 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gold lettering to spine and cover over dark grey boards. First edition.
Inspector Wexford is asked to look into the disappearance of his Kingsmarkham neighbor, Rodney Williams. Since Joy Williams is dowdy, Wexford assumes at first that her middle-aged husband has simply left her… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glory
by Jack Curtis
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
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- First
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- 1988
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- 9780525246688
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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358 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter white cloth with red and silver lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Laura Scott knows her friend was murdered, and with the help of an ex-cop begins her own investigation to discover the truth. But as Laura and John move closer and closer… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reportorio de tiempo e historia natural de Nueva Espana
by Enrico Martínez (1550-1632)
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- 1948
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£79.10
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xlvii+[blank]-317 pages with reproduction, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Introduction by Francisco de La Maza and bibliography by Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio. Testimonios Mexicanos Historiadores.
Enrico Martínez was cosmographer to the King of Spain, interpreter for the Spanish Inquisition, publisher, and hydraulic engineer. The viceroy, D. Diego Fernandez de Cordoba, Marques… Read more about this item Item Price
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Murder at the Opera: Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense at the Opera
by Thomas Godfrey editor
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- Fine
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- First
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- 1989
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- 9780892963799
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£3.96
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250 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Contents:
Addio, San Francisco by 'Albert Herring' --
Swan song by Agatha Christie --
A matter of mean elevation by O. Henry --
Mom sings an aria by James Yaffe --
The affair at the Semiramis Hotel by A.E.W.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Culture, Practice, and the Semantics of Xhosa Beer-Drinking Ethnology Volume XLII (42) Number 3
by Patrick Alister McAllister (1948–2016)
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- First
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- 2003
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£7.91
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187-207 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLII Number 3 complete issue. First edition.
Rural Xhosa beer-drinking is associated with a specialized lexicon related to producing, distributing, and ritually consuming maize beer in communal settings. Understanding this provides important insights into the status of beer as an indigenous commodity and the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adolescent Ambiguities and the Negotiation of Belonging in the Andes in Ethnology Volume XLII (42) Number 4
by Krista E Van Vleet
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- First
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- 2003
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349-363 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLII Number 4 complete issue. First edition.
Although typically marginal to conceptions of citizenship, children also negotiate their belonging to the nation. This article explores the ways adolescent girls in a rural region of Bolivia use clothing to identify themselves with various collectivities: nation,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Manuscript regarding the 14th Division located in Patzcuaro
by Juan Vicente Güemes Pacheco y Padilla, Conde de Revillagigedo (1740-1799)
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- First
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- 1794
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£988.75
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Three folio leaves. First one on Papel Sellado. Housed in handcrafted display enclosure.
Document sent to Teniente Coronel Don Francisco Menocal, commander of the 14th division located in Patzcuaro. In order to defend the Royal Dominions in New Spain, Militias will be formed, except in the coasts and borders as there are already militias in these areas. Without delay, 16… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alabado sea el Santisimo Sacramento. Patente de la Cofradia del Santísimo Sacramento. Patente de la cofradía fundada con autoridad real y ordinaria en el sagrario de esra santa iglesia catedral de Durango
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- 1795
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£1,779.75
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Broadside. Folio (16 3.4" x 12") single sheet with manuscript insertions and signatures of society official within a woodcut historiated border. Housed in a hand crafted enclosure.
Alabado sea el Santisimo Sacramento. Patente de la Cofradia del Santísimo Sacramento. Patente de la cofradía fundada con autoridad real y ordinaria en el sagrario de esra santa iglesia catedral de Durango, broadside confraternity… Read more about this item Item Price
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Zweites Internationales Schachturnier, Zu San Sebastian, 1912
by Jacques Mieses (1865-1954) and Moritz Lewitt
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- Second
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- 1920
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£39.55
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147 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5313) Second edition.
The San Sebastian Tournaments of 1911 and 1912 were remarkable for two reasons, of which are virtually forgotten today. Organized and run by Mieses, it… Read more about this item Item Price
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Schach-Weltmeisterschaft in Khanty-Mansiysk (World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk)
by Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (1962- ) and Nikita Kim
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 2007
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- 9785946930659
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- 1
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£15.82
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267 pages with diagrams and color photographs. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6")bound in original publisher's pictorial covers. First edition in Russian.
The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In an event attended by most… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chess Tournament of the USSR Masters With Participation of M Euwe. and H Kmoch
by I P Golubev and SO Weinstein
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- Used - Good to very good
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- First
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- 1934
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55 pages with photographs. Duodecimo (6" x 4 3/4") bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In Russian. From the library of Meindert Niemeijer. First edition.
During the 1930s a series of tournaments were organised in the Soviet Union, the aim of which was to test the new generation of Soviet masters against the best professionals of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A catalogue of manuscripts in the collection of Western Americana founded by William Robertson Coe, Yale University Library
by Mary C Withington
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- First
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- 1952
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x+398 pages with frontispiece and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition.
Comprising more than 65,000 printed works, 4,000 catalogued manuscript collections, tens of thousands of vintage photographs, and hundreds of prints, watercolors, and paintings, the Yale Collection of Western Americana documents the indigenous communities of North America,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Come Morning
by Joseph "Joe" Nicholas Gores ( 1931-2011)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 1986
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- 9780892962433
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- 1
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£3.96
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218 pages. Octavo (9" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over dark grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
After eight hard years in San Quentin prison, Runyan is out and ready to lead a quiet life - an honest life. But certain people have been planning for the day of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leechtime
by Albert Belisle Davis (1947- )
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1989
- ISBN
- 9780807114940
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- 1
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£5.54
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196 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
This novel tells the story of Adrian Cancienne, a man of the marsh, who was born during leechtime and who as a wild teenager was placed under a leechtime curse by his great-aunt, a maker… Read more about this item Item Price
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Noticia de las Sesenta, y Cinco Proposiciones Nuevamente Condenasas por . . . Inocencio XI
by Raimundo Lumbier (1616-1684)
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- 1684
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£672.35
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[10]+125+33+[1] leaves. Quarto (8 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in contemporary vellum. (Medina, Mexico 1312; Palau 143969n) 7th edition.
A report on a 1679 papal bull by Pope Innocent XI which condemned (among other things) a more liberal approach to abortion.
Condition: Stamp to head end pages, lacking lower ties, hand written title to spine, edge wear with some small chips to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Printed portrait, black and white, of Viswanathan Anand at the chess board
by Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (1969- ) signed
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- 2003
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£59.32
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Printed portrait, in black and white. (7 3/4" x 10") with Vishy Anand adjusting the chess pieces. Signed on the portrait.
The 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 31 July - 10 August 2003. Rest day: August 5. Games started at 3 pm, Round 10 at 12:30 pm local time. Time control: "Standard" (FIDE).… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ensayo Bibliografico Mexicano del Siglo XVII
by Vincente de Paul Andrade (1844-1915)
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- Third
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- 1971
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£355.95
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viii+803 pages with facsimiles. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7") bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and cover. Reprint of the second edition of 1899. limited to 250 copies.
Forms, with García Icazbalceta's Bibliografía Mexicano del Siglo XVI (1886) and Nicolás León's Bibliografía Mexicana del Siglo XVIII (1902- ) a continuous bibliography of Mexican literature, 1539-1800. 1,228… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fundación del Real y Pontificio Colegio Seminario. 28 de noviembre de 1689
by Eduardo Chávez Sánchez
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- First
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- 1997
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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£79.10
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[xx]+179 pages with foldout panel, facsimiles and bibliography. Quarto (11 3/4" x 9") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Limited to 1000 copies. First edition.
The Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585 discussed the foundation of a conciliar seminary for Mexico. In 1592 Philip II of Spain issued a royal decree which ordered seminaries to be founded in all of New… Read more about this item Item Price
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Printed representation of Kramnik with scene during competition games
by Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (1975- ) signed
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- 2011
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Tinted one sheet printed representation of Kramnik with chess scene during competition games. (11 1/4" x 7 3/4") Signed and dated at the bottom.
The 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 8-17 July 2005. Rest day: July 13. Games started at 3 pm, Round 9 at 1 pm local time. Time control: 100 minutes… Read more about this item Item Price
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