Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's ribbed dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. [x]; 384pp. Light bumping to corners, some fraying and bumping at the spine ends and a little discoloration to the cloth in places, gilt bright, binding strong; internally clean and fresh, fore-edge untrimmed, frontis. with tissue guard. A......
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First printing (preliminary issue?), from British sheets. 12mo (17cm). Original printed paper-covered boards; 64pp. Title page is a cancel. Some rubbing to boards, including a small scuff at upper corner of front cover; internally clean, tight, and unmarked. A Very Good copy. An uncommon issue of Aldington's third regularly-published book.....
12mo. (19.5cm); publisher's original dark green vertically-ribbed cloth titled in gilt on front cover, with embossed decorations within triple blind-ruled border on covers; viii,[9]-238,[4]pp, with pictorial frontispiece of an eight-point buck by Wightman, and woodcuts at the end of Chapters 14 and 16. Touch of softening to spine ends, light.....
First Printings, published between 1000-2000 copies per issue. Eleven octavo volumes (23.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [1]-275,[1]; [1]-324,[4]; [3]-381,[1]; [3]-402,[2]; [7]-440,[2]; [9]-412,[2]; [7]-458,[4]; [9]-400,[4]; [7]-346,[6]; [9]-358,[2]; [9]-299,[5]pp, with black & white illustrations, half-tone plates, and folding charts; text is entirely in Spanish. Edgeworn, wrappers rubbed, gently spine-sunned, and lightly dusty.....
More info about Estudios de Cultura Maya - Vols.I, III-XII (1961-1979
First printing. Folio (40cm x 37cm; ca 16" x 14-1/2"). Original marbled paper-covered boards, re-spined and recornered to style; new endpapers; early owner's inserted stenciled half-title ("James Mathews / Atlas / April 14 1868"); 72pp. Leaves are printed rectos-only, comprising title-page, 64 hand-colored maps (two folding), a table of distances.....
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51 issues, with nos. 93&94 and 120&121 released as double-issues, all softcovers. 51 Octavos (21cm); pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white and colorful photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson (pseud. Nathaniel Tarn), with his ownership to.....
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First impressions. Two slim, small octavo volumes (19cm). Uniform publisher's blind-embossed green cloth by Westleys, titled in gilt on spines; printed endpapers; 104 + 69pp. Printed binder's ticket to rear pastedown of each volume. A few old bookseller's marks to prelims; ownership signatures of Edward Dowden to front endpapers, dated.....
Octavo. 18cm. Bound in later full bottle green morocco by Bennett of NY, elaborately decorated and titled in gilt to spine and boards with geese, ducks, snipe etc. [iv]; 168pp. Strong, tight, and attractive, very light wear, slight darkening to the spine panel, gilt bright; internally fresh and clean, top.....
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36 softcovers, including the First and Second Editions of no. 2. Octavos (19cm); pictorial paper wrappers; French flaps; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations, including fold-out map and charts, throughout. Full pagination available upon request. Text in Spanish. From the library of contributor, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Edward Michael Mendelson.....
Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 309pp. Minor bumping to spine ends, light wear and scuffing to extremities, and a little soiling to the lower edge of the cloth boards, clean and fresh; internally clean, with some light offsetting to flyleaves and.....
One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Quarto (32cm); quarter vellum over yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxiii,208,[4]pp; illus. Lightly spine-tanned, with marginal soil to p.111; Near Fine. Dustwrapper has sticker residue and 1.5" triangular tear.....
12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers, 32pp. Text in Ukrainian. Light rubbing and wear to wrappers, including brief chips and marginal tears. Text paper browned but not brittle; about Very Good. No publisher given, but rear wrapper advertises publications by "Iskra," the Russian revolutionary exile newspaper. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute.....
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Folio. 30cm. Publisher's burgunbdy cloth titled in orange to spine. Dustjacket & Publisher's Slipcase. [xi]; 428pp. Very light incidental wear to the cloth, sharp and bright; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a clean strong pictorial dustjacket, and the publisher's buff card printed slipcase with some minor bumping and.....
First Impression, one of 20,300 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,[3],4-426,[2]pp; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillén on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez, with small drawings of the Cuban.....
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Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bottle green embossed ribbed cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind to the spine and front board. 211pp. Strong and straight, bumping to corners and softening to spine ends, some oxidisation to the spine gilt, and some light cosmetic soiling and discoloration of the cloth in.....
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Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.646-657,[2]; illus.; text is entirely in French. Some wear to extremities, toning to wrapper extremities and text edges, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and some attendant creases, and a few benign shapes drawn in red pencil at lower rear wrapper; contents complete;.....
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Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled and decorated in vibrant gilt and black to spine and front board. 289pp. +[6pp] ads to rear. Very light scuffing and edgewear, light cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed. A very good, bright copy indeed. Notable on several major points;.....
First printing. Two octavo volumes. Early straight-grained morocco over marbled boards; gilt spine-titles; pp. lxxxiii, 364; iii--xv, 429pp. Half-titles present. Rubbing to board edges and spine ends, with heavier rubbing at crowns and board corners; foxing generally mild, more conspicuous (but not obtrusive) to a few gatherings in each volume.....
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Quarto. 25cm. Pulisher's pictorial paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 132pp. Very light wear to corners and spine ends; internally clean, signed by McCulling to the title page; in a clean, strong example of the dustjacket with some very light cosmetic edgewear. A near fine signed copy. McCullin's relationship with India has.....
12mo (10.5cm); brown paper-covered boards; [n.p.]; black and white illustrations throughout, with red color included in four illustrations. Lacking slipcase. Rubbing and peeling to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil; Good. Comic flip-book includes a person manipulating the letters of 'Mafia' as they are brought to his location on a......
First Printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Evelyn Scott whose reaction to my little book I most sincerely appreciate," signed in full, datemarked aboard the S.S. Bremen, Mar 28, 1933. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket;.....
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Octavo (21cm); silver cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in purple, yellow, and black on spine and front cover; lavender and teal pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 158pp; black and white photographic (halftone) illustrations, with colorful illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges, with trace residue to title page; Very Good.....
First printing. Review copy, so stamped by the publisher on front endpaper, with stamped publication date of November 21, 1939. Octavo. Tan linen hardcover; title stamped in brown on spine, with applied photomontage panel on front cover; x,363pp. A tight, square, attractive copy, lightly dusted on upper edge of text.....
