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Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2001 (copyright 1993), Harvard Classics Millennium Edition, "Bound in Genuine Leather, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations", edited by Charles W. Eliot. Hardcover, pp. 493, 9" x 6", red leather binding, elaborate tooling with gilt-stamped lettering & Harvard "Veritas" device, hubbed spine, all edges gilt accented (22 kt.), moire silk endpapers, satin attached page marker. In Very Good condition, light corner bumping, small dings to front board. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism

J.M. Dent, London, Everyman's Library 1930 reprint, Hardcover without jacket, pp. 458, 17x11x2.5 cm, green cloth with gold heraldic device on front board and gold title in classic Everyman's type on spine, edges are a dark green dye, includes introduction, text, notes, glossary, article on Everyman's Library by Ernest Rhys, and "A list of the 850 volumes arranged under authors", charming school prize label on the paste-down. The book is in Very Good condition - pages clean and bright, board corners still sharp. A nice example of early 20th century Everyman's.

Country Life Press (Doubleday, Page & Company), Garden City, New York, 1914. Hardcover, no jacket, pp. 334, octavo, 19 cm tall, gilt titles and decorations on green cloth. illustrated by Craig Johns. In Good+ condition, fading to spine, front hinge becoming loose (webbing showing), occasional light foxing, crayon on last page. Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was an American newspaperman, editor, newspaper owner, and author of both non-fiction and fiction

Melville House, Brooklyn, 1st US Edition, 1st Printing Feb 2019, boldly Signed by author. Hardcover with dust jacket, pp. 420, 23 x 16 cm, includes occasional illustrations, including graphic novel sequence. Condition is Fine in Fine.

Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand, not dated (references a 2007 exhibition) by Chen Wenbo, curated by Wei Zin, contributions by Chen Wenbo, Feng Zhengjie, Luo Fahui, Yang Qian, Zhang Xiaotao. Large square paperback, 28.5 x 28.5 x 1.25 cm, pp. 108, Chinese and English text, photographic wraps in gloss finish, many gorgeous photographic plates, some full page. Near Fine copy – bright, sharp corners, some tanning on rear wrap.Chen Wembo's detailed paintings place him in the Chinese contemporary realist movement, where he and his contemporaries study the quotidian object as centerpiece in their works. Feng Zhengjie's "exotically colorful style" is originated from a traditional drawing called "Mian Zhu Nian Hua," created and used in a village in Si Chuan called Mian Zhu. (Courtesy Wikipedia). Stunning images.

Doubleday, New York, 1st Edition,1st Printing 2021, SIGNED by Colson Whitehead on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 318 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, black boards with silver titling, jacket printed with sections in red, yellow, green sections with retro illustrations. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine: tiny crease on rear top corner of jacket. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s (Courtesy Goodreads).

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1923 (German language), Band 36 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 11 pages text. Near Fine copy, light buckling to label on cover, faint curling of boards. Also includes a rare Klinkhardt & Biermann order form! In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist… Read More

ACCART Books, Suffolk, England, 2nd Printing, March 2020, SIGNED by Bill Wyman on a bookplate affixed to the title page. Large format hardcover without jacket (as published), 267 numbered pages, 31 x 25 cm, black board with B&W lettering on the front except for color photographs within the "STONES" letters; color photographic strip effect on rear cover, color and B&W photos, both candid and posed, throughout. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, with minimal shelfwear. Extra postage required for outside US or priority mail. After joining what would become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, Wyman continued his photographic hobby. When he didn't have his bass, he had his camera. The result is an arresting, insightful and often poignant collection of photographs, showing his exclusive inside view of the band. From travelling to relaxing, backstage and on, Stones From the Inside is a unique view captured by a man who was there, every step of the way. Along with the images of the band at… Read More