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New York: Sumptibus Duttonis, 1962. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. E.H. Shepard. The title page continues: Liber Celeberrimus Omnibus Fere Pueris Puellisque Notus Nunc Primum De Anglico Sermone in Latinum Conversus Auctore Alexandr lenardo. Not many beloved children's books can be said to have been published in a Latin translation. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper. Bound handsomely in a salmon colored cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, though sunned a bit at spine, protected by a plastic coat. Latin translation in 1962, lovely illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Illustrated endpapers front and rear (being of Winnie the Pooh's stomping grounds). Winnie Ille Pu was the product of over seven years of work, beginning with a German translation… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A.E." and "AE" were the pen-name pseudonyms of George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who was "an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist" and who also wrote on philosophy and mysticism, especially Theosophy circles of which met in Dublin for many years (Wikipedia). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, chipped along top edge, protected by a plastic coat, machine- but not price-clipped. 50 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Not currently otherwise available to the trade on-line, nor available in Worldcat dot org. According to a Wikipedia entry about him, the author Armand-Gaston Camus was born in April of 1740 and died in November of 1804. French Revolutionist, captive for 33 months of the Austrians, son of the lawyer Pierre Camus, successful lawyer in his own right, and founder of the Archives Nationales. Measures 7 3/4" x 10". This short communication is disbound from a larger volume, hand-sewn, complete, with slightly waffly text, rag paper is lightly foxed here and there, else clean and unmarked. pp. 416-435. First and final pages are present but detached.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Privately Printed, 1902. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. # 128 of 400 copies of this Special Limited Edition. Bound simply in two-tone, green cloth over boards, white vellum-backed, toned and abraded, gilt stamped lettering to spine, a bit scuffed at spine head. Rough-cut fore-edges and bottom-edges, and a particularly bright interior. A fine collection of English poetry from the Early Modern period (1500-1700). Poems by Francis Atterbury, Philip Ayres, Aphara Bohn, Alexander Brome, Tom Brown, William Congreve, Charles Cotton, Johny Dryden, Sir George Etherege, George Farquhar, THomas Flatman, James Howard, Nahum Tate, John Wilson, Anne Wharton, William Walsh, and many others. xxiii, 128 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Boston, Massachusetts: George W. Light, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. C. Neagus W. Sharp J.C. Sharp. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line beyond P.O.D.s. of this First Edition; "1841" appears on both title and copyright page. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Publisher's original blind-stamped decorations to front and rear covers, bound in brown cloth, newly backed in creamy brown cloth, gilt-ruled and gilt lettering over black label, quite sharply so. Slight forward cock to spine. Moderate rubbing to covers, tips, extremities, light scuffing along top edges, lighter along bottom, bruising of but not breaking of tips. Lightly waffled text-block, light foxing and toning thereto. Beautiful black-and-white lithograph at frontis, signifying early use thereof of this medium, drawn by Miss C. Neagus and pulled by W. and J. Sharp of Boston. The lithograph is… Read More

San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co, 1888. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with lightly bruised and scuffed tips, neat and tidy paste-downs, and decorated endpapers; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Published by Samuel Carson & Company, printed by C.T. Dillingham, San Francisco & New York, 1888. A second printing of the First Edition, having been "translated from the Portuguese" (yeah, right) and published in this edition the year prior, featuring full gilt-embossed light brown-colored cloth, with some bumping to and scuffing of spine head and foot. The gilt illustration is of a Portuguese conqueror seated on a rock, perhaps a loose head at his side, definitely, a California bear and sword at his side, too, with two Portuguese ships in the bay. 333 pp., and indexed fully. A fine frontis illustration in photogravure of who appears to be a Jesuit priest taking down… Read More

Leipsig, Germany: A. Schumanns, 1921. 4th edition, improved and revise. Softcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Six volumes on the Dutch Masters with marvelous reproductions of their drawings, studies, and sketches. Translated as Hand Drawings by Old Masters of the Dutch painting school, being the fourth, improved and revised edition, complete in six volumes (missing only a single plate from one folio), bound in soft half-leather including 383 panels mounted on cardboard, in folio format, housed in original half-leather wing folders with leather corners. Folio format measuring 16” x 12”. Leather of the folders is rubbed and scraped, scuffed and worn, but the backstrips are complete and holding sufficiently. Some of the folders are stained, many edges of the folders are scuffed and/or split. All panels present, but again, handle with some care.Internally, the contents are easily Good, Very Good, structurally, being comprised of 383 of 384 hand-drawings of… Read More

New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Gail E. Haley. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Retold and illustrated colorfully by Gail E. Haley, an old Cherokee tale for children. Glossy pictorial boards, and with sinewy gouache illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Zurich: Verlag fur Architektur Artemis, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy in hardcover oblong format, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Beautifully produced in a light brown linen cloth covers, sharp and distinct black lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. German, French and English text, replete with over 200 black-and-white illustrations, some being full-page. Introduction by Karl Fleig. [4], 5-275 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Payson & Clarke, Ltd, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Introduced and with commentary by Achmed Abdullah, being a fine survey of being poems and ballads of Central Asia translatedout of the Afghan, the Persian, the Turkoman, the Tarantchi, the Bokharan, the Balochi, and the Tartar tongues together with an Introduction and Historical and Philological annotations. Bound in two-tone, light raspberry paper over boards, darker raspberry over spine, rubbed paper title label to spine. Moderate sunning along exterior edges, some mild soiling, a few dings, bruising to and scuffing of upper front tip. Inside front flap is an abraded bookplate of Henry and Sylvia Lieferant, and then the remains of pink paper thereover. "Fred Petras" is written in pen by the previous owner, the noted erotophile and bibliographer, Gerson Legman, and confirmed by his widow, Judith Evans Legman. Else with plentiful penciled check-marks in margins, but neither highlighting nor… Read More

New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1907. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Penned by a popular writer Louis Barnett Abrahams (3 October 1839 – 3 June 1918), a British educator, the headmaster of the Jews' Free School in London, and a great popularizer of things Judaic in the U.S. Abrahams was prominent, and articles about him appeared regularly in mainstream British Jewish publications in his lifetime, iA perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated Third Edition, revised for and adapted to American use. Printed, illustrated papers over boards, bluish-green cloth-backed. Moderately worn and lightly scuffed edges, tips, else quite bright of interior.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London, England: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011. Softcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. About 5,000 children were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto in 1941-1944, of which some 250-300 were smuggled out of the ghetto, hidden by gentiles and survived. Augmented by plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xv [1], 2-416 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London, England: Vallentine Mitchell & Co., Ltd, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this condition and state (hardcover, stated First Edition). Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "Almost one and a quarter million Jewish soldiers took part in the First World War, spread through the armies on both sides of the conflict. Their numbers were more or less in proportion to the Jewish populations in the countries involved, and sometimes even greater. There is comparatively little writing about this experience in Hebrew. Those who did write novels, poetry, stories, memoirs and diaries in Hebrew were either serving soldiers on the Eastern Front and in Palestine, or civilians who were caught up in the war in one way or another. Their work reflected not only the tribulations of the trenches,… Read More

New York: St Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Black cloth covers, white lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. A probing account of Israeli theater from 1948-1978. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-232 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 71 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond faint sunning along top edge and creasing there, paper-backed, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. SIGNED by the author at title page, being warmly inscribed there. 349 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, paper-backed, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. SIGNED by the author at title page. Laid in is a full-page newspaper review from The Oregonian prior to a reading by the author at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, the author's home. 384 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond faint sunning along top edge and creasing there, paper-backed, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. 384 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at title page, being inscribed "For Chris, you have a great Dad." Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. A 13-yearold street kid in Miami and his scrounging for food and livelihood, drugs and shelter, reveals "Miami's real estate boom and gentrification, politics of food and sugar, teen culture and the ebbs and flows of marriage" (according to the jacket blurb). Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Justifiable P.E.N. Center U.S.A. Award for Literary Fiction in 2012, being the Portland, Oregon-based author's… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2003. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for ink-stamp of former library at title page, but with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, minor wear thereto, protected, not price-clipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Stated Second Printing of the First Edition. 349 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.