A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by John Berger; Jean Mohr [photos]
London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards, photo-illustrated endpapers, green topstain, in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price (30s net); 157pp.; half tone photographic illus. by Mohr throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins, brief soil to verso, flaps toned, spine ends... Read More
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A Vocabulary, or Collection of words and phrases which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America. To which is prefixed an essay on the present state of the English language in the United States
by John Pickering
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. Very Good. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First Separate Edition, "with corrections and additions." Octavo; publisher's plain paper over blue paper-covered boards, titling printed directly to spine ("Pickering's Vocabulary"); vii,[8]-206pp. Extremities scuffed with small loss to bottom fore-edge of upper cover, two small dampspots to the same, small loss mid-spine affecting the "V"... Read More
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White Tripe [Omnivore Part Four]
by Chris and Kris Pickles
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England: Chris & Kris Pickles, 1973. Near Fine. Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England: Chris & Kris Pickles, 1973. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (25.5cm); original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers stenciled with copper and silver paint; [2],16ll.; chiefly illus. printed mimeograph. Light wear and soil, else a Near Fine example. Short-lived periodical of risqué illustrations and comic strips... Read More
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Tom & Jerry. Life in London; Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis
by Pierce Egan; George Cruikshank and Isaac Robert Cruikshank [illus.]
London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. Very Good. London: John Camden Hotten, [1869]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth embossed in gilt, grey glazed endpapers; 406,[26](ads)pp.; 35 color lithographic plates. Margins rather scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine darkened and crown rather chipped, front hinge starting, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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![Chronologie Anecdotique du Vignoble Français d'après les documents recueillis par Pierre Andrieu et Roger Vaultier [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/373/741/1396741373.0.m.jpg)
Chronologie Anecdotique du Vignoble Français d'après les documents recueillis par Pierre Andrieu et Roger Vaultier [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
by Pierre Andrieu; André Galland [illus.]
Paris: Éditions Maurice Ponsot, 1944. Near Fine. Paris: Éditions Maurice Ponsot, [1944]. First Edition, limited to 800 copies of which this is no. 633. Folio (31cm.); loose as issued in green pictorial die-cut wrappers housed in publisher's green mottled paper-covered chemise, printed paper spine label and matching slipcase; 197pp.; sixteen aquarelles plates, additional illus. throughout text printed in... Read More
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Fine Bouche: A History of the Restaurant in France
by Pierre Andrieu; Arthur L. Hayward [trans.]; B. Biro [illus.]
London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. Very Good. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip tipped in... Read More
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Police Blotter
by Robert L. Pike
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1965. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); 189pp. Light wear to jacket margins, spine a bit cocked, very occasional brief soil to textblock, else Very Good and... Read More
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The Quarry
by Robert L. Pike
New York: Doubleday & Co. / Crime Club, 1964. Good +/Good +. New York: Doubleday & Co. / Crime Club, 1964. Stated First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 176pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; boards bound in black wax cloth with silver stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped, scuffed, and toned throughout. Boards bumped and scuffed; spine... Read More
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Wybor Pism
by Jozef Pilsudski
Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America for Research in the Modern History of Poland, 1944. Good; Very Good/Good; Very Good. New York: Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America for Research in the Modern History of Poland, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); 369pp. No dust jacket; boards bound in tan cloth with blue lettering. Polish language throughout; black-and-white photographs throughout; fold-out... Read More
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The Blind Child, or Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family, Written for the Use of Young People
by A Lady" [Elizabeth Pinchard]
Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1814. Very Good. Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1814. 12mo (14cm.); contemporary gilt-lettered calf over marbled paper-covered boards; vi,[7]-90pp. (collated complete); woodcut frontispiece of a young woman reading. Boards scuffed with exposure along margins and corners, faint foxing and damp stain to early leaves, else Very Good and sound. Early American edition of this... Read More
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The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow and Company, [1994]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 494pp. Minor shelf wear, a few leaves dog-eared, textblock and jacket lightly cockled from exposure to damp, else a Very Good, bright copy overall.
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Une Somme de Poesie [Limited Edition]
by Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Paris: Gallimard, 1946. Very Good. [Paris]: Gallimard, [1946]. First Edition, Limited to 1050 copies printed on papier Plumex des Papeteries Téka of which this is no. 659. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's decorative black paper-covered boards printed in yellow, blue, and gilt; 629pp. Boards a bit rubbed and worn, especially at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, spine sunned and... Read More
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Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L. J. M. Daguerre
by [Louis Daguerre]; Stephen C. Pinson
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Very Good +/Very Good +. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. First Edition. Quarto. 313 pp. Black and white and color photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Dark gray boards with spine lettered in silver; slate endpapers. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with a diagonal crease to... Read More
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The Caretaker: A Play in Three Acts
by Harold Pinter
London: Encore Publishing Co. Ltd, 1960. Very Good. London: Encore Publishing Co. Ltd., 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's black staplebound card wrappers lettered in white; [2],61pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, especially along spine fold, white upper cover lettering and rear wrapper rather toned, the latter also somewhat soiled with faint evidence of removed strip of tape... Read More
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Betrayal
by Harold Pinter
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 138 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red and black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and toned along edges with slightly heavier wear to crown. A touch of edgewear to boards and nudging at spine ends. Binding sound and... Read More
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Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Harold Pinter
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Enitharmon Press, 1968. First Edition, Limited Issue of 200 copies signed by Pinter at limitation, this being #155. Octavo; 24pp. Clear acetate wrapper. Red morocco spine lettered in gilt over slate cloth boards; top edge gilt; erratum slip. Wrapper rubbed and scuffed. Mild wear to boards with occasional smudging;... Read More
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![Five Screenplays: The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, and The Go-Between [Limited Edition, Signed by Pinter]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/997/332/1573332997.0.m.jpg)
Five Screenplays: The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, and The Go-Between [Limited Edition, Signed by Pinter]
by Harold Pinter
London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 1971. Near Fine. London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 1971. First Edition, Limited Issue of 150 numbered copies signed by Harold Pinter at limitation page, this being #11. Octavo. 367 pp. Black and red boards stamped in gilt; red topstain. No dust jacket as issued. Touch of rubbing to extremities and front board very... Read More
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Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-1998 [Signed]
by Harold Pinter
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [4],205pp. Light shelf wear, else a straight and sound, Very Good copy. Signed by the author on title page.
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Kant's Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason
by [Immanuel Kant] Robert B. Pippin
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pp. Printed dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in silver. Boards rubbed along edges and folds with some general scuffing. Minor shelfwear to boards and front board bowed. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free... Read More
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An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire from earliest times to the end of the sixteenth century
by Donald Edgar Pitcher
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; x,171pp.; and thirty-six (36) color maps printed on twenty-nine (29) folding plates collated complete (inset maps numbered separately). Light shelf wear, jacket spine a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound.
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La Chirurgia Completa: Secondo il Sistema de' Moderni
by [Francois Planque]
Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1758. Very Good. Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1758. First Italian Edition. Two volumes in one; 12mo (15.5cm.); full contemporary vellum retaining original endpapers; xii,216;420pp. (*6 A-I12, A-R12 S6 [Q signature missigned P]); nine folding plates of engravings, woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. Vellum rather stained with some loss along fore-edge of rear cover, brief... Read More
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The Garden of Eden
by Faisal Abdu-Allah; Michael McMillan [essay]; David Adjaye [architectural plans]
London: Autograph ABP, 2005. Fine. London: Autograph ABP, 2005. First Edition. Stitched accordion-bound brochure housed in original red folder; illustrations throughout, including color photographs. Fine condition. With promotional letter from the publisher. Catalog accompanying Abdu-Allah's installation at the Chisenhale Gallery. According to the promotional letter the catalog's "design offers a way of experiencing the installation, representing its... Read More
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My Mother's Pearl Necklace [Limited Edition, Signed]
by David Plante
New York: Albondocani Press, 1987. Very Good +. New York: Albondocani Press, 1987. First Edition, Limited to 167 copies of which this is no. 65. Small quarto; publisher's stitched marbled wrappers, printed paste-on to upper cover, French flaps; [20]pp. Front cover fore-edge rather curled, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Signed by the author on colophon. ... Read More
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The Chance is Higher [Limited Edition, Signed by Marcopoulos]
by Ari Marcopoulos; Jeremy Sigler [play]
New York: Dashwood Books, 2008. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Dashwood Books, 2008. First Edition, Limited Issue of 50 copies hand-numbered and signed by Marcopoulos at rear, this being #42. Grainy photographs printed on red paper throughout. Photographic dust jacket; photo-illustrated gray cloth boards; decorative endpapers. Housed in publisher's gray cloth slipcase. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; tight... Read More
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Turbott Wolfe
by William Plomer
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. Very Good -. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 231 pp. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Boards show moderate wear to edges and joints with light spotting to bottom half... Read More
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