![Bliss and Bluster; or How to Crack a Nut [Signed by van de Wetering]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/404/983/1611983404.0.m.jpg)
Bliss and Bluster; or How to Crack a Nut [Signed by van de Wetering]
by Janwillem van de Wetering; Joe Servello [illus.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition with full number line. Small square quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],106pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author on half title page. A "Buddhist allegorical tale" of an advertising... Read More
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Collected Shorter Poems
by [Japanese Language] W. H. Auden; Motohiro Fukase [trans.]
Tokyo: Serika Shobo Co., Ltd, 1976. Very Good+. Tokyo: Serika Shobo Co., Ltd., 1976. Revised Second Edition. Boards bound in decorative paper with black titling to spine, wrapped in original acetate and housed in cardboard slipcase with pink title band. Boards lightly toned at margins with nudging to corners and spine ends. Flyleaf lightly offset, otherwise pages clean.... Read More
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The Newest Pocket Jazz
by [Jazz - Japan]
Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company, 1938. Very Good. Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company, 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo (15.5 cm); publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 192,[3]pp.; brief illus., sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers, small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text, textblock a bit browned and foxed, else Very Good, bright and sound.... Read More
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Croquet: The Laws and Regulations of the Game, Thoroughly Revised, with a Description of the Implements, Etc., Etc.
by John Jaques
Boston: A. Williams & Co, 1865. Very Good -. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1865. First American Edition, "Reprinted from the Eighteenth London Edition." Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publishers limp green pictorial cloth embossed in gilt; 30,[2]pp.; frontispiece and illus. throughout, some full-paged, pictorial local advertisements in rear. Binding rather rubbed at extremities and gilt very slightly starting to... Read More
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The Enigmatic Chancellor: Bethmann Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany
by Konrad H. Jarausch
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. Very Good -/Very Good -. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,540pp.; frontispiece. Extensive chipping and wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, a few pencil scribbles to upper panel and faint annotations throughout textblock; a Good to... Read More
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The Life of Una Marson: 1905-65
by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Fine/Near Fine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,242pp. Very light wear to bottom margin of rear jacket panel, else a Near Fine copy. Biography of the Jamaican-born Afro-British feminist poet, playwright and broadcaster Una Marson.
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![Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/829/766/1578766829.0.m.jpg)
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy [Inscribed and Signed]
by Randall Jarrell
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Fourth Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; vii,[1],277pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade sunned, light soil to lighter portions, verso faintly foxed, else Very Good and sound overall, nicer than often encountered. Inscribed and... Read More
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Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon, & Death to the Savage Unitarians. Broadside from the Collection of Ricky Jay
by Ricky Jay
New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2005. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2005. First Edition. Folio; publisher's cloth in glossy black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 172pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket margins including some curling along top edges, very light spine lean, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound... Read More
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The Development of Attic Black-Figure
by J.D. Beazley; Dietrich von Bothmer and Mary B. Moore [eds.]
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Near Fine/Very Good. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. Revised Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in glossy black dust jacket; xxvii,[1],116,[2],104pp.; halftone illus. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Collection of eight lectures on Greek vase painting originally delivered in 1949 at... Read More
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Catechism of Political Economy; or, Familiar Conversations on the Manner in which Wealth is Produced, Distributed, and Consumed in Society
by Jean-Baptiste Say; John Richter [trans.]
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son, 1817. Very Good. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son. 1817. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 144 pp.; 24 pp. publisher's catalog bound to front. Bound in recent red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and new endpapers. Light rubbing to boards and binding is sound.... Read More
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![Mon Premier Voyage / Des Beaux-Arts Considérés Comme un Assassinat / Lettre a Maritain [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/248/043/1511043248.0.m.jpg)
Mon Premier Voyage / Des Beaux-Arts Considérés Comme un Assassinat / Lettre a Maritain [Limited Edition]
by Jean Cocteau; Jacques Rueff, intro
Paris: Vialetay, 1973. Near Fine. Paris: Vialetay, 1973. Limited to 2000 copies. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's teal blind-embossed leatherette, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; xix,[1],285pp.; 16 leaves of plates, including one folding. Tiny scratch mid-spine else Fine. An attractively produced collection, part of the series "Prestige de l'Académie Française.
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![Marthe and the Madman [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/218/431/1489431218.0.m.jpg)
Marthe and the Madman [Signed Limited Edition]
by Jean de Bosschère; Pierre Loving [trans.]
New York: Covici, Friede, 1928. Very Good. New York: Covici, Friede, 1928. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 97 of 275 copies on colophon. Octavo; 265pp. Special full-color frontispiece by the author, with black and white illustrations throughout. Patterned boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Housed in blue cloth-covered slipcase. Boards faintly shelfworn... Read More
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Babar the King
by Jean de Brunhoff; Merle S. Haas [trans.]
New York: Random House, 1935. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Random House, [1935]. Early Printing. Slim folio; publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.00); 47pp.; color illus. throughout. Jacket rather dust-soiled, moderate wear to margins including chip at spine crown, boards rubbed and corners bumped, otherwise a Very Good, internally clean and bright example.... Read More
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Oeuvres Completes de La Fontaine (Partial set - Vols 1, 2, 4, 5, & 7)
by Jean de La Fontaine; M. Louis Moland [ed.]
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1870. Very Good. Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine, gilt lettering... Read More
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![Fifty Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed by Blake]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/303/686/1699686303.0.m.jpg)
Fifty Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed by Blake]
by Jean de La Fontaine; Norman R. Shapiro [trans.]; Sarah Bakewell [intro.]; Quentin Blake [illus.]
London: Folio Society, 2013. Fine. London: Folio Society, 2013. First Folio Society Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 338. Quarto; publisher's full green crushed morocco, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt after a design by the illustrator, top edge gilt, in paper-covered slipcase; xvi,97pp.; full color illus. throughout. Slipcase unevenly sunned, else a... Read More
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![Adonis [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/043/1511043249.0.m.jpg)
Adonis [Limited Edition]
by Jean de La Fontaine; Paul Valéry [intro.]
Paris: Devambez / Au Masque d'Or, 1921. Very Good. Paris: Devambez / Au Masque d'Or, [1921]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies on vélin de Rives of which this is no. 708. Small, slim octavo (18cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, green spine onlay, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in; [2],xxxii,29pp.; frontispiece reproducing Poussin's... Read More
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Fables de La Fontaine [Six Volumes in Three]
by Jean de La Fontaine; Simon et Coiny [illus.]
Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1796. Very Good. Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1796. Six volumes in three; small octavos (16cm); contemporary blue-green paper-covered boards, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels; frontispieces at head of four volumes, two hundred and seventy-two (272) steel-engraved plates (collated, presumed complete). Boards scuffed at margins with exposure at corners, contemporary Lille bookseller... Read More
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![Boating for Beginners [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/627/903/1687903627.0.m.jpg)
Boating for Beginners [Signed]
by Jeanette Winterson; Paula Youens [illus.]
London: Methuen, 1985. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: Methuen, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 160pp. Boards in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket (£8.95). Illustrated throughout. Jacket lightly sunned at spine and joints with minor bumping and rubbing to margins. Board corners and spine ends bumped and erasure abrasion to first... Read More
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![Axel [Limited Edition, Signed by Finberg]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/347/844/1669844347.0.m.jpg)
Axel [Limited Edition, Signed by Finberg]
by Jean Marie Matthias Philippe Auguste Count de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam; H.P.R. Finberg [trans.]; William Butler Yeats [preface]; Thomas Sturge Moore [illus.]
London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1925. Very Good +. London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1925. Limited Edition of 500 copies signed by translator H.P.R. Finberg of which this is no. 6. Octavo; publisher's white gilt-embossed cloth designed by Thomas Struge Moore, top edge gilt; 294,[2]pp.; black and white illustrations throughout. Rubbing to edges, spine a touch soiled; some minor smudging. Binding sound. Off-setting... Read More
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![The Problem of Method [alt. title: Search for a Method]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/656/380/1701380656.0.m.jpg)
The Problem of Method [alt. title: Search for a Method]
by Jean-Paul Sartre; Hazel E. Barnes [trans.]
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, [1963]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in red and white decorative dust jacket retaining original price (30s net); xxxv,[3],181pp. Jacket a bit toned along spine panel and flap folds, slight spine lean, top textblock edge foxed, else a Very Good and sound copy.... Read More
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![La Nausee; Le Mur; Les Chemins de la Liberte: Le Sursis, La Mort dans L'ame, and L'age de Raison [Five volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/936/1562936847.0.m.jpg)
La Nausee; Le Mur; Les Chemins de la Liberte: Le Sursis, La Mort dans L'ame, and L'age de Raison [Five volume set]
by Jean-Paul Sartre; Walter Spitzer [illus.]
Paris: Editions Lidis, Imprimerie Nationale, 1965. Very Good. Paris: Editions Lidis, Imprimerie Nationale, 1964-1965. Limited Edition of 4000 "Sur Velin Vercors" copies, this being #4724, from a total print run of 5012. Quarto. Color lithographs to each volume, some double-page. Printed wraps. Clear acetate dust jackets to four of five volumes. Light chipping to edges of... Read More
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![The Wall [Limited Edition, Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/303/486/1699486303.0.m.jpg)
The Wall [Limited Edition, Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre]
by Jean-Paul Sartre; Lloyd Alexander [trans.]
New York: New Directions, 1948. Very Good. New York: New Directions, 1948. First American Edition, Limited Issue of 25 copies signed by Sartre, though this copy unnumbered. Tall octavo. 270pp. Parchment-backed illustrated boards with gilt stamping to spine; top edge gilt; lacks slipcase. Light wear to edges; brief staining to crown; mild soiling. Binding sound and pages unmarked;... Read More
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Elephi
by Jean Stafford; Erik Blegvad [illus.]
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy / Ariel Books, 1962. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy / Ariel Books, [1962]. First Edition. Slim 12mo; two-toned cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, mauve topstain; [6],76pp. Jacket spine very slightly toned, tiny soil spot to front panel, corners nudged, else a Near Fine copy. Sweet picture... Read More
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![Crete 1941: German Parachutes in Crete, 20 May 1941 - June 1941 [Cover title: Fallschirmjäger in Crete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/372/1418372487.0.m.jpg)
Crete 1941: German Parachutes in Crete, 20 May 1941 - June 1941 [Cover title: Fallschirmjäger in Crete]
by Jean-Yves Nasse; G. Schubert [trans.]; et al.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2002. Fine. Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2002. First English-Language Edition. Quarto; publisher's glossy photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; 160pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Corners gently bumped, else Fine.
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The Place-Names of Devon
by J.E.B. Gover et al.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931. Very Good-. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1931-2. First Edition. Two volumes + folding maps in separate slipcase; publisher's purple cloth, gilt-lettered spines, maps housed in matching slipcase; lx,334; xiv,[335]-754pp. Ex-Oxford History Faculty Library with usual markings throughout, light wear to cloth extremities, spines toned to tan, corners bumped, else a Good to... Read More
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