First Printing, with the title page a cancel tipped into sheets from the British edition published the previous year. Octavo (19cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; black topstain; dustjacket; 295pp, [1]. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, with a touch.....
Deluxe Issue, this copy marked "Author's Copy," signed both by Wakoski (twice) and illustrator Hans Burkhardt. Three large letterpress printed sheets of Arches Heavyweight in tri-fold format, each housing an original print signed and dated by Burkhardt; in black paper chemise, housed in the publisher's original cloth slipcase, with title.....
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18 volumes, all large quartos. Very Good to Fine. Includes titles from the songbook series "Partizanske Pjesme: (nos. 1-8, all located in the British Library only in OCLC) and "Nova Pjesma" (see nos. 10-16, uniformly bound in red pictorial wrappers; none located in OCLC). 1. Hercigonja, Nikola. Partizanska [with] Budi.....
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Octavo (25cm). Disbound pamphlet; [i]-viii [9]-166pp; a few in-text diagrams and wood engravings. Sewing sturdy, edges gently rubbed, minor creases to first few leaves, foxed throughout: Very Good. Ruffin was a Virginia plantation owner and senator who performed early research on soil, demonstrating the importance of using marl (calcareous earth).....
One of 500 copies (along with an additional 40 copies, uncut, for use of the author). Slim octavo (21.5cm); original printed card wrappers, stapled; [20]pp. Inscribed by the author to Noam and Carol Chomsky on the title page: "To the Chomsky's – sitting in! Josephine Miles." Subtle toning and a......
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Octavo (19.5cm). White cloth spine over red cloth-covered boards; red top-stain; dustjacket; 450pp. No. 180 of 250 signed and numbered copies in the first edition. A fresh, fine copy, with the gold foil endpapers bright and uncreased; in the original gold foil art deco dustwrapper designed by Paul Spener Johst.....
First Printing, with "Published August 1917" on copyright page, and no mention of further printings. Octavo (19.75cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [10],11-311,[1]pp. Some wear to spine ends and extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with some mild discoloration to board edges, rear hinge.....
First Impression. Octavo (19,5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [8],9-335,[1]pp. Sunning to spine and extremities, modest external wear, some offsetting to endpapers (with a few tiny tears to same), lower corners bumped, with a small label of The Times Book Club (London) to lower rear pastedown;.....
Octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],320pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with minor puncturing to spine affecting text without loss of meaning, yellow portion of spine sunned to white, cloth a bit spotted else Very Good and sound overall. Louisiana fiction, a collection of.....
Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper.
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Twenty-three octavo volumes. Uniformly bound in publisher's white buckram with paper spine labels. Limited to 500 sets, each signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on limitation leaf of first volume; gravure frontispieces signed in pencil by various artists (see below). Bindings somewhat toned and soiled, with occasional foxing to cloth; spine.....
Lettered Issue, one of 26 copies signed by William Boyd (this being letter 'X'). Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over boards, quarterbound in green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain; 61pp. Topstain slightly uneven, else Fine without dustjacket, as issued.
First printing, with the copyright page notices lower on the page, and the capital O in the spine imprint. Octavo (19cm). Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; viii,288pp; 4pp publisher's catalogue at front, dated July 1852. Sound but cocked and rubbed, cloth cracking over rear.....
Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 117. Folio (33.5cm.); publisher's grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in maroon cloth slipcase, pictorial plate mounted to upper panel; x,[2],406pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Corners gently bumped, light wear to slipcase, else Very Good or better. Unfortunately lacking the proof issued with.....
Original machine-lithographed poster in colors, 38" x 27". Horizontal fold at center. On thin paper, toned and slightly weak a centerfold and margins; B. A dramatic and handsome post-war Bosnian poster promoting the health-resorts of the newly-formed state, along with the treatments associated with each. Among the place-names listed are.....
Octavo (22cm.); removed; 28pp. Stock rather extensively foxed, brief contemporary doodles to title page and note to rear blank verso (serving as upper and rear covers), faint shallow tide mark along bottom margin of textblock; still, Good to Very Good overall.
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Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet (31.5x21.5cm.); original woodcut illus. to recto and verso, text printed in double column. Tiny creases at corners, faint fold lines, else Near Fine.
Broadside, with text, decorative elements, and ruled border letterpress printed in red and black on cream deckle-edged stock, measuring 11.5" x 18" (29cm x 45.5cm). While not called for, this copy has been signed by Bradbury at lower margin. A Fine copy of this broadside, printed at The Castle Press.....
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Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the poet, this being copy no.241. Slim octavo (22cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in bronze on front cover; [16]pp, with two wood engravings (one in black & white, one in colors) by Gertrude Hermes. Light wear.....
First Impression. Octavo; blue-gray paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 280pp. A triffle sunned at spine and upper board edges, else very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with some trivial sunning to yellow spine lettering. The sixth Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel.....
First Impression. Octavo (19vcm); black cloth covered boards, titled in orange/red on spine; 318pp; fold-out map at rear; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; tiny bookseller's ticket inside rear cover; foxing to the textblock, end papers and scattered faintly throughout the margins of the text; Very Good or better, lacking.....
Small octavo (19cm.); original decorative terracotta cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in black and gilt; 311pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece, folding panorama plate of a "phalanstère" bound in rear. Some white soil spots to lower cloth edges, spine crown a touch frayed, pages uniformly toned due to poor paper stock.....
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First Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],115,[1]pp; illus. Signed by Gordimer on the title page. Publisher's rubber-stamp to front pastedown, else Fine in a Fine dustjacket. A powerful collaborative work between these two prominent South African figures, combining Gordimer's text and Goldblatt's.....
First printing. Octavo (18.5cm). Brown cloth, boards blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; yellow coated endpapers; [i]-ix [10]-184pp. A straight and sturdy copy, much rubbed at head, tail, and corners, but internally tight and clean: Very Good. Snow was a minister who openly embraced Spiritualism; this work outlines the material.....
