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venetiis, apud ioan. Gryphium [ Gryphium, Venice, MDLXIII [1563]. Early printing. Hardcover. Good +. LAVRENTII VALLAE [Lorenzo Valla] VIRI DOCTISSIMI ELEGANTIARUM [elegantia] latinae linguae Libri Sex [De Elegantiis] eiusdem de reciprocatione sui, & suus, libellus Annotationes autem doctorum hominum, qux praeter rem antea refecatae fuerant iterum fuum in locum in studioforum omnium utilityatem restituimus. Index rerum & uerborum virtvte dvce comite fortuna, venetiis, apud ioan. Gryphium MDLXIIIText in Latin. 16mo, 6" tall, 624 pages + 40 page index, vellum. This original copy is in better than good condition overall. The vellum is moderately soiled; the hinges and binding are solid, rag paper is light to moderately yellowed with minor insect damage mostly to the first and last pages, with minor marginal foxing as well as some penned markings to the title page and a few margins leaving the titles and Gryphon symbol intact.

Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads; VA, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. With areviewers slip laid in. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 376 pages, gray cloth. A near fine clean sturdy hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.

Atheneum; NY, 1982. First Paperback Edition. paperback. Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 63 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, clean, neat soft cover with minor shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper creamwhite.

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket as issued. Quarto, 10 1/3" tall, xiv + 902 pages, blue cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with moderate shelf wear and exterior soiling; hinges and binding tight, text paper lightly yellowed with a previous owner's name penned on the front endpaper. This is a larger and heavier volume and will require some additional postage.

New York, New York: Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 509 pages, maroon cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition overall with minor shelf wear, cover cloth color faded at the bottom of the spine ; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. In a good, colorful, edge worn dust jacket, yellowed, with chipping at the folds, and with the original price.

New York, New York: Dial Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 308 pages, beige boards; map end papers. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.

Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 314 pages, white titles on decorated red cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, spine slightly canted. Lacking dust jacket.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: CRC Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 516 pages, illustrated boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear and a a scrape on the back cover; hinges and binding tight, paper white,

Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1908. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. A goodreading copy only. Octavo, 8" tall, 191 pages with intertextual illustration, illustrated green cloth, gilt titles. A good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities, slight fraying at the fore-corner tips, hinges and binding shaken, paper lightly yellowed with some foxing at the fore-edge. Some new poems and other previously published, collected in a new (1908) edition with Will Vawter illustrations.

Arcade Publishing, 2003-11-10. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 227 pages, gray boards. A near fine, clean neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press; NY, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine /Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 347 pages, black boards. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket with slight wear at the folds, with original price.

Paris, France: Chez Jacques LeCoffre, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Text in French. Sextodecimo, 5 3/4" tall, 144 pages; five-banded spine, brown Morrocan quarter leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers, green ribbon. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with rubbing to the leather at the top and bottom of the backstrip, marbled cover paper worn through to the board at the corners, hinges and binding solid, paper supple and cream white with light to moderate foxing scattered throughout.

Indiana University Press, 1973-09-22. 7th printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xv + 239 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007-02-19. First edition, first printing. hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 262 pages,yellow boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972. First Edition thus. Hardcover--cloth. Near Fine/Without dust jacket (if issue. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. The 'stock' cover image typically is that of the original Scribner's edition published in 1952 Greenwood Press reprints, produced for libraries, generally do not have dust jackets. Octavo 8 3/4" tall, viii + 120 pages, maroon cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but a touch of foxing to the top fore-edge.

London, England: Sands & Co.; London, 1902. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Number 5 of a limited edition of 200 copies, and signed by Vignaud. Small quarto, xix + 365 pages, half vellum & green cloth, top edge gilt. Contains 4 fold-out appendices & fold-out map. A good copy overall of this limited first edition; internal condition very good with binding solid, paper clean, cream white, with endpapers lightly soiled and fore-edges lightly foxed. Exterior is fair as backstrip has begun to separate from the front cover at the hinges with original vellum split 4" from top and bottom edges, but holding mid-section. Vellum is heavily foxed and green cloth is stained and rubbed especially at rear panel. A copy worthy of restoration. ".....a critical study on the authenticity and value of these documents and the source of the cosmological ideas.......

New York, New York: Soho Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 232 pages, black and brown boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket, with original price.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth,. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 225 pages, blue quarter cloth. A fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, lightly worn dust jacket with original price.

Braunton, Devon, England: Merlin Books, 1992. reissue. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. Originally published in 1989Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 250 pages, illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat, soft cover edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white.

Simon & Schuster, 2018-07-10. 7th printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 578 pages, black and gray boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.