The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey of Homer, Both Engraved by Thomas Piroli from the Compositions of John Flaxman Sculptor
by Homer (Thomas Piroli)
Rome, 1793. 1/4 leather. Very Good. Thomas Piroli (John Flaxman). The 1793 1st appearance of the Thomas Piroli engravings (from the compositions of John Flaxman) of both The Iliad and The Odysssey. Collected in a single volume which has been bound in a handsome 19th century 1/4 leather over marbled boards. An oblong folio, solid and VG+ (with... Read More
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Fiabe Novelle e Racconti Popolari Siciliani (4 Vols.)
by Giuseppe Pitre
Palermo, Italy: Edizioni "Il Vespro, 1978. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. Handsome re-issues of the 19th century Sicilian folktales of Giuseppe Pitre. The 4 volume set, all in their original wrappers AND in their pictorial dustjackets. Light wear at several of the jacket spine ends but still clean and solid and VG. Thick 16mos, 1,686 pgs. all... Read More
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Schumann as Critic
by Leon B. Plantinga
Yale University Press, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1967 1st edition. VG+ in a VG+ dustjacket with one tiny chip to the foot of the spine. Octavo, 354 pgs.
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Penn Central in Color (Vols. 2 and 3)
by Jeremy F. Plant
Morning Sun Books: Scotch Plains, N.J., 2009. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Pristine copies of the 2009 and 2010 stated 1st printings of Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 respectively. Both volumes tight and Fine in bright, price-intact, Fine dustjackets. Quartos, hundreds of crisp color photos thruout.
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Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices
by Sylvia Plath
London: Turret Books, 1968. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Stanislaw Gliwa. The 1968 1st edition. #37 of 180 numbered copies (of which 150 are for sale), published by Turret Books of London. Clean and Near Fine in its off-white cloth, with pictorial gilt (of the "Three Women") adorning the front cover. And in a clear, VG+ example... Read More
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Crossing the Water (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
by Sylvia Plath
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. Original wraps. Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1971 Uncorrected Proof of Sylvia Plath's "Crossing the Water". Clean and Near Fine in its light-green wrappers, with just a touch of light creasing at the preliminaries. Octavo, 64 pgs.
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Sylvia Plath. A presentable copy of the 1971 stated 1st American edition. TIght and VG - to VG with mild staining to the panels and light rubbing along its spine. And in a crisp price-intact ($6.95) VG dust jacket with several small closed tears and very light... Read More
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Million Dollar Month
by Sylvia Plath
Surrey, England: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wraps. Fine. A crisp, Fine copy in its stapled wrappers. #118 of 150 numbered copies issued. Originally written in the early 1950s while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith.
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Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg (Signed by Claes Oldenburg AND Both Authors)
by Richard H. Axsom and David Platzker
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY CLAES OLDENBURG along the half-title AND BY THE AUTHORS RICHARD AXSOM AND DAVID PLATZKER on the title page. A very solid copy to boot of the 1997 stated 1st edition of this sweeping catalogue raisonne of the prints, posters and ephemera. Tight and Fine in a... Read More
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Golf and How to Play It
by An Old Player
London: Horace Cox, 1905. Pictorial boards. Very Good. A solid copy of the 1905 1st edition. Tight and VG in its gray cloth, with very light soiling at the panels. 12mo, crisp black-and-white photos and charts thruout. Wonderful golf-related ads at the rear.
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Surbanalisme: Sequences Photographiques de Bernard Plossu
by Bernard Plossu
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1972. Original wraps. Near Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1972 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its spiral-bound wrappers, with one small crease at the front panel's upper tip. Quarto, each verso blank, fold-out plates at each recto. Preface by Sergio Leone.
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Le Voyage Mexicain 1965-1966
by Bernard Plossu
Paris: Contrejour, 1979. Original wraps. Very Good +. A handsome copy of the 1979 1st edition of this uncommon Bernard Plossu Mexican travelogue (with crisp, wonderful black-and-white photos thruout). Tight and VG+ in its pictorial wrappers, with just athe lightest trace of soiling to the front panel. Octavo, text in its original French, Preface by Denis Roche. ... Read More
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My Easy-to-Read True Book of Trees
by Illa Podendorf
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crisp, handsome copy of the 1960 re-issue. Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustkacket. Octavo, wonderfully illustrated thruout by Richard Gates.
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The Raven: Together with the Philosophy of Composition (In Dustjacket AND Slipcase)
by Edgar Allan Poe
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. A crisp, very sharp copy of the lovely Dodd, Mead 1930 1st thus, with the 1st appearance of the "19 full-page illustrations in black and white by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, author of CAPTURED!" Tight and VG+ (with a mesmerizing bookplate at the front pastedown) in... Read More
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The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (In a Full Custom Leather)
by Edgar Allan Poe
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Full leather. Near Fine. E. McKnight Kauffer. The 1946 1st thus, complete in 2 volumes and bound in a custom full-morocco by the French binder Maurin (identified by their tiny gilt-stamps at the front pastedowns). Clean and Near Fine, with 4 raised bands and intricate tooling and floral design within the compartments.... Read More
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Willy Pogany's Mother Goose
by Willy Pogany
New York: Thomas Nelsonand Sons, 1928. Boards. Very Good. Willy Pogany. THE 1928 SIGNED/LIMITED, #89 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY at the limitation. Solid and VG in its 1/4 navy-blue cloth over light-blue boards, with a clean, bright title-label to the front panel. Light scuffing to the panels, light wear along the tips and the spine... Read More
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Monge-Ampere Equations of Elliptic Type
by A.V. Pogorelov
Groningen, The Netherlands: Noordhoff, 1964. Boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. A solid copy of the 1964 1st English language edition. Tight and VG+ in its pebbled red boards. And in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with light offsetting and very light soiling along the panels. Octavo, translated from its original Russian by Leo F. Boron.
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Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry
by A.V. Pogorelov
Groningen, The Netherlands: P. Noordhoff Ltd, 1966. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1966 1st English language edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with very light soiling at the panels. Octavo, translated from its original Russian by Leo F. Boron.
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For the Love of Autumn
by Patricia Polacco
New York: Philomel Books, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. NICELY SIGNED BY PATRICIA POLACCO on a nicely-illustrated, tipped-in leaf along the front free endpaper. A very solid copy to boot of the 2008 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of peeling at the rear panel's bottom-edge. Tall quarto, nicely... Read More
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het abc van Abattoir Ferme
by Pol Dehert, Stef Lernous et al.
Lannoo Uitgeverij, 2019. Pictorial boards. Fine.
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Emmet
by Leo Politi
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Leo Politi. NICELY INSCRIBED BY LEO POLITI (AND INCLUDING A LAVISH DRAWING OF 2 BUTTERFLIES PERCHED ON FLOWER PEDALS) on the front free endpaper. A clean, very impressive copy to boot of the 1971 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (with just a touch of scuffing at the... Read More
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De Architectura
by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1649. Full vellum. Very Good. An illustrated edition of Vitruvius, edited by Joannes de Laet (1582-1649), an historian, geographer, merchant and director of the Dutch East India Company. Among the other archityectural wqorks itr contains is the first edition in Latin of Sir Henry Wotton's "Elements of Architecture", first published in English in 1624 and here... Read More
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History of Trinity Church and Its Grave Yard
by Allan Pollock
New York: Self-published, 1880. Cloth. Very Good. The uncommon 1880 1st edition of the history of Trinity Church of New York, originally self-published by the author Allan Pollock. Solid and VG in its light-brown flexi-cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. A bit of light, inoffensive offsetting at the edges, otherwiser very clean. And internally, no writing or... Read More
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Secrets of Redding Glen: The Natural History of a Wooded Valley
by Jo Polseno
New York / Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, 1973. Pictorial boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jo Polseno. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR JO POLSENO on the half-title. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1973 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with one tin closed tear along the front... Read More
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The Retina
by S.L. Polyak
University of Chicago Press, 1941. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A surprisingly well-preserved copy of the 1941 1st edition of this exhaustive study of the retina. Tight, clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very minor creasing and chipping along the edges and at the spine crown,... Read More
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