Social Life
From Wealth and Rebellion Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist to L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903, we can help you find the social life books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.uk, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
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L'Assiette Au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous No 92 -- 3 January 1903
by Beurre, Paris L'Assiette Au
P & O Pencillings
by Lloyd, William Whitelock
London: Day & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco spine, leather corners, gilt decorated front cover lettering. Aeg. Very good. Lloyd, William Whitelock. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 30 x 40.5 cm. Edition de Luxe. copy 284 of 300 signed by Lloyd. One map, chromolithograph frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (with hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company illustrating life...
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£346.97
Lisette Model; Preface by Berenice Abbott
by Model, Lisette
New York: Aperture, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards. Near fine in dust wrapper with marginal tears. Model, Lisette. 109. Folio, 39 x 30 cm. Signed by Lisette Model on half title. Illustrated with more than fifty plates presenting images from the 1937 series to later studies of New York -- Promenade des Anglais, Sammy's Bar New York, Lower East Side New York et al. Berenice Abbott provides critical commentary.
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£367.38
Proverbial Comparisons in Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones Peruanas
by Arora, Shirley L
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Publications: Folklore Studies. Vol. 16. List of Abbreviations. Bibliography. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.
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£16.33
Ancient Japanese Nobility The Kebane Ranking System
by Miller, Richard J
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1974. First edition. Publications: OccasionalPapers. Nos. 7. Extensive Bibliography. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.
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£24.49
Apron Full of Gold The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856
by Megquier, Mary Jane
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush.
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£24.49
Structure of Custodial Care An Anthropological Study of a State Hospital
by Salisbury, Richard F
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Publications in Culture and Society. Vol. 8. Bibliography. Index. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.
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£20.41
Articles of Light. Reflections on lowlifes, ratbags and angels
by Dickins, Barry
Ringwood: Penguin Original. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. xii, 289 pages. Australian playwright, author and artist, Barry Dickins has the ability to catch the absurdity and loveliness of normality. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£7.90
A Cure for a Smoky Chimney !!
by Woodward, William
London: Thomas Tegg, 1822. Wraps. Very good. Woodward, William. 26.5 x 40 cm. Etching with hand coloring. Whatman watermark 1822. Woman says, "believe Doctor your are little better than a great Irish impostor -- to take two Guineas for curing my Chimney, and the moment I put a bit of fire in the grate I almost suffocated !!" Fellow replies, " Don't put yourself in such a passion my dear Crater I'll make it appear as plain as the nose on your face -- all you talked to me about smoke you never mentioned...
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£122.46
The Relicks Of A Saint. A right merry Tale by Ferdinand Farquhar, Esq
by Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator]
London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. drab boards. Good in fine red cloth chemise housed in fine quarter red morocco and matching cloth slipcase. Rowlandson, Thomas. 135 pages. 18 x 10.5 cm. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece by Rowlandson. Half-title, front cover detached, spin abraded, text generally clean.
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£236.76
A Tenant At Will
by Grant, C.F
London: G. Tregear, 1831. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Very good. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with two men standing at entry one noting, "It seems we shan't have much to carry." The seated fellow refuses to pay the Crown taxes, stating "Tell his aforesaid Majesty I shant pay a farthing Old cockalorum, [a little man who incorrectly has a very high opinion of himself]. So you may Sieze for it." Printed on heavy stock, repair at left corned head, nick at right head corner.
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£204.10
Shaker Architecture
by Schiffer, Herbert (Compiler)
Exton: Schiffer Publishing, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 190 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Voluminously illustrated with photographs, plans to scale and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Self imposed restraint brings power to the architecture -- where the adequate becomes art. Each of the sixteen chapters present a separate Shaker community.
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£36.74
The Decisive Moment
by Bresson, Henri Cartier
New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by Draeger Freres, Paris. " The Decisive Moment" Captions laid-in. Considered the father of modern photojournalism, he used a 35 mm Leica...
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£714.35
Degas in New Orleans. Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.
by Benfey, Christopher
Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. Very Good condition. Remainder mark to bottom-edge. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 294 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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£7.90
History of The United Service Club
by Jackson, Major-General Sir Louis C
Aldershot: Committee of the United Service Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth with front cover decoration in gilt. Near fine. 132 pages. 25 1/2 x 16 cm. Sixteen illustrations. Index. History of the reknown English officer's club.
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£24.49
A History of Playing Cards And A Bibliography Of Cards and Gaming
by Hargrave, Catherine Perry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Very good/Near fine.. 468 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Thirty-one color plates with lettered tissue guards and approximately 500 black and white illustrations. Extensive Bibliography. Index. Compiled and Illustrated from the old cards and books in the collection of the United States Playing Card Co. in Cincinnati. An authoritative and detailed history elegantly presented, visually attractive. Bright, clean copy. Minor rubbing to corners...
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£163.28
Hand Colored Proof Engraving Depicting Hunting Scene; Wood framed glass portrait with hooks suitable for hanging
by Leech, John
Np: Np, Np. Hardcover. A few very slight nicks to wood frame. Near fine. Leetch, John. Description reads: Ruggles: " Hold hard Master George its too wide, and uncommon deep." Master George: "all right Ruggles! We can booth swim!" Frame is 37 x 28 inches, with image 23.5 x 15 inches in a matted five inch border.
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£122.46
Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata
by Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates
New York: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. Full vellum with gilt lettering and decorations. Teg. Very good. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed.
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£142.87
Soviet Era; The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
by Markov-Grinberg
Bologna: Damiani editore, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Markov-Grinberg. 156 pages, 28.5 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated with Markov-Grinberg photographs, starting with his early work as a photo journalist started in the 1930's covering the collective farms through World War II and beyond; however,the majority of images are from the 1930's. Text in English.
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£81.64
Sporting Scrap Book
by Alken, Henry
London: Thomas McLean, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. deep rose boards, front cover text within rectangular border, backstrip rebacked in modern red morocco with red morocco corners housed in red cloth chemise in matching half red morocco slipcase, the latter with raised bands, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine. Alken, Henry. No text. 27 x 19 cm. 50 hand-colored plates, many with multiple images, of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely...
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£1,628.72
Greenwich Village Types Tenements & Temples
by Wall, Bernhardt
New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. Third State. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth and brown boards with watercolored title label (possibly from the original wrapper). Near fine. Unpaginated. 28 x 21 cm. Twenty-one etched plates with tissue guards. Signed by wall and numbered "copy no. 12" in his hand on title page. The half title states "Limited to 50 copies," and Bernhardt's introduction notes, "Big business is fast butting in on the outskirts of the Village. Soon the Montmarte of America will be a mere...
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£1,816.49
Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities; Being The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating. Eccentric And Extravagant Exploits Of That Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks, Etc.
by Alken, Henry (Illustrator)
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green calf, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers and edges, Very good. Alken, Henry. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First appeared in Vols. I-VII of New Sporting Magazine and then in book form in 1838 with 12...
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£693.94
Friendly Thumps__or a Receipt for Terminating Family Quarrels
by [Williams, Charles]
London: Thomas Tegg, 1822. Wraps. Very Good. Wiiliams, Charles. 25 x 40.5 cm. Hand colored etching. 1822 watermark. Text below title: "The Thumps to be repeated with 'Peace you monster _ Havee done you Termagent (a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman) _ Hands off you coward _ Retire you Verago_ this impartial application will operate on the risible muscles as a salutary fit of laughter, delerge the ill humours, and unite the parties in sound Love and Friendship for the remainder of their lives." Top...
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£224.51
Hand Colored Proof Engraving Depicting Hunting Scene; Wood framed glass portrait with hooks suitable for hanging
by Leech, John
Np: Np, Np. Hardcover. A few very slight nicks to wood frame. Near fine. Leetch, John. Description reads: Old Coachman: "Now Miss Ellen, Now Miss Ellen! you know what your Pa said! You was to take the greatest care of Jerry!" Miss Ellen: "I will Robert! and that's why I'm taking him off the nasty hard road poor thing." Frame is 37 x 28 inches, with image 23.5 x 15 inches in a matted five inch border.
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£142.87
![Stanford White ALS & Portrait of latter, matted and framed [36 x 48 cm.] WITH Aline B. Saarinen ALS, 22 x 16.5 cm. laid-ln at rear sleeve of frame; Stanford White, American architect and partner in McKim, Mead & White](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/862/670/716670862.0.b.jpg)
Stanford White ALS & Portrait of latter, matted and framed [36 x 48 cm.] WITH Aline B. Saarinen ALS, 22 x 16.5 cm. laid-ln at rear sleeve of frame; Stanford White, American architect and partner in McKim, Mead & White
by White, Stanford
Np: Np, Np. Near fine condition, matted and gilt framed -- suitable for hanging. Letter 23 x 14 cm. [Stanford White] to [Marie] Anais [Casey], believed to have been romantically involved with by his biographer, Aline B. Saarinen. White's handwritten letter in ink reads, "My dear dear Anais what do you mean? You know my services are always at your disposal but in such a case as this I should feel very badly indeed if you did not consider what I have done for you as a labor of love & I am sure that at...
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£1,632.80
Crocodiles and Alligators (Endangered Species)
by Levy, Charles
Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books Inc.. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 23cm x 29cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour photographs, drawings and maps. 128 pages. A survey of this endangered group of animals drawing on the latest research into these living dinosaurs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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£10.54
