Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik
by Alechinsky, Pierre
Munich: Galerie van der Loo, 1967. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. 80 pp. Small 4to. Wrappers. Fine. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. 80 pp. Small 4to.
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Boyd Alexander's Last Journey with a Memoir by Herbert Alewxander
by Alexander, Boyd
London: Edward Arnold, 1912. First Edition. 296 pp.; folding map, full-page map, frontispiece, plates, half-title. [viii], Spine. 8vo. Cloth. VG. First Edition. 296 pp.; folding map, full-page map, frontispiece, plates, half-title. [viii], Spine. 8vo. "After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to Africa, traveling through the Cameroons, Nigeria and into... Read More
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Salmon-fishing in Canada by a Resident
by Alexander, Colonel Sir James Edward
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Illustrated. xiv, [i], 350, 24, ads pp. 8vo. Half dark brown morocco and maroon cloth, all edges marbled. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated. xiv, [i], 350, 24, ads pp. 8vo. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Westwood & Satchell, p. 3; Bruns A 65; Lande... Read More
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Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834 ... with Observations on the Present and Future State of Portugal
by Alexander, James Edward
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1835. First edition. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece by J. Clark after Alexander, engraved map by J. & C. Walker, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a loosely inserted 1 1/2 pp Autograph Letter Signed of Admiral G.R. Sartorius to Captain William Nugent Glascock, April 6, 1833, concerning his dealings with "the Emperor." xvi, 328 pp. Half-title. 8vo. Original... Read More
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The Log of the North Shore Club. Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior
by Alexander, Kirkland B.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. Illus. xvii, [i], 228 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, paper photo onlay on upper cover. Fine in worn pictorial dust jacket (chipped, lacking 3 inch piece at top of spine). First edition. Illus. xvii, [i], 228 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Heller 1:722; Bruns A67 "very scarce
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Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait
by Alexander, William
[N.p., Peking, 1790. 1 vols. Image 3-3/8 x 2-5/8 inches. Matted and framed. 1 vols. Image 3-3/8 x 2-5/8 inches. Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792;... Read More
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions
by [Alexander, William]
London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, 1814. First edition. Title leaf, [2] pp. Contents, xv pp. Introduction. With 50 hand colored plates and following leaf of letter press, interleaved with blanks. 1 vols. 4to. Maroon buckram. Ex-library with bookplate and embossed stamp to title page, and some stamps thereafter; illustrations fine and bright.... Read More
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The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner]
by Alexis, W. A. G. [i.e. Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haering.]
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo. Half contemporary calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. First Edition in English, with half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 42; Wolff 85
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Locos. A Comedy of Gestures
by Alfau, Felipe
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1936. First edition, signed and numbered by the author and limited to 1250 copies. 307 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth with some rubbing to top corners and head and foot of spine, near fine with book plate on pastedown. With TLS from Steven Moore to McCarthy, folded and rumpled, but very... Read More
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Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera
by Alfieri, Vittorio (1749-1803)
Italy, 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. [6],39,[1]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary patterned paper covers, paper label. Spine lightly chipped. Minor dampstaining and soiling. Old dampstain throughout, about very good. In a brown half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt. Limited edition of 250 copies. [6],39,[1]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of... Read More
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Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes
by (Algeria) Hautfort, Felix
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1897. Illustrated. [viii],147,[5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Bottom corner margins of pp. 1-2 & 79-80 excised without loss. Very good plus. Illustrated. [viii],147,[5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune
by Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1907. Early reprint. Frontispiece. iv, 383 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan pictorial cloth. Very good plus in worn pictorial dust jacket (front panel split along folds). Early reprint. Frontispiece. iv, 383 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gardner P. 406
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Hand-Colored Lithograph, heightened with Gum Arabic, : "Morabite. (Garçon de Bains.)" from "Galerie Royale de Costume, Costumes, Algériens, 27.
by (Algeria)
Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, 1842. Lithography by Janet Lange. 1 vols. 16-1/2 x 11 inches (Sight). Matted. Fine. Lithography by Janet Lange. 1 vols. 16-1/2 x 11 inches (Sight). Colas 1163; Hiler, p. 350; Lipperheide 60
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Carte Topographique des Environs d'Alger d'Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers d'Etat-major et autres documents
by (Algeria)
Paris: Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kppelin, 1856. Engraved on stone by Erhard Schieble. 1 vols. ca. 40 x 27. Consisting of 21 panels of ca. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches on cloth, three ring holes in left margin. Stain in upper corner and along upper edge as well as along folds, some soiling... Read More
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Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Mauresque d'Alger. (Costume d'intérieur)" from "Galerie Royale de Costume, Costumes, Algériens, 16.
by (Algeria)
Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, 1842. Lithography by Janet Lange. 1 vols. 16 1/2 x 11 inches (Sight). Matted. Fine. Lithography by Janet Lange. 1 vols. 16 1/2 x 11 inches (Sight). Colas 1163; Hiler, p. 350; Lipperheide 60
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Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social and Natural, of French Africa
by (Algeria) Morrell, John Reynel
London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854. First edition. Illustrated, folding map at end. xv, [i], [17]-490pp. 8vo. Full brown polished calf prize binding for St. Marleybone & All Souls Gramamr School in Union with King's College, by E. Westley, Friar Street near Doctors Common, with ticket at back. First edition. Illustrated, folding map at end. xv, [i],... Read More
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The Real Algeria
by (Algeria) Stott, M.D.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1914. First Edition. Illus. with 26 plates from photos by the author. xvi, 319pp. 8vi. Bound in modern three quarters crimson morocco and marbled boards. Fine. First Edition. Illus. with 26 plates from photos by the author. xvi, 319pp. 8vi.
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Appel en Faveur d'Alger, et de l'Afrique du Nord, par un Anglais
by (Algeria) [Bannister, Saxe]
Paris: Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1833. [ii], 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Presentation inscription at head of title, “a — — de la part de son ami l’auteur”. [ii], 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Early response to the French conquest of Algeria in 1830 and subsequent plans for its annexation to France. While the initial hopes of... Read More
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Thundermug by Nelson Algren [excerpted from The Windsor Quarterly; Vol II, No. 3. Winter 1935]
by Algren, Nelson
Mena, Arkansas: Commonwealth College [The Windsor Quarterly], 1935. First edition. An offprint prepublication excerpt from Somebody in Boots (and was formerly later as Chapter 9), set in Nelson Algren's hobo years of the early 1930s. Though intended to be published in The Windsor Quarterly: Modern American Literature - Vol. II, No. 3, Winter 1935, the same year Algren won... Read More
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Somebody in Boots
by Algren, Nelson
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. 322 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth on boards with some soiling and slight fraying along seam at spine and at head and foot of spine, previous ownership of Edward Landberg on ffep, inscribed on verso of half title. Very good. First edition. 322 pp. 8vo. At some point Matthew Monahan who... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, Malcolm Cowley's copy, with his ownership signature. 343 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth, stamped in green and red on spine. Spine sunned and soiled; edges lightly tanned; small areas of damp staining on front; spotting and soil to rear; topstain faded; no dust jacket. First edition, Malcolm Cowley's... Read More
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Typed agreement signed ("Nelson Algreen"), regarding rights for a Spanish language edition of The Man with the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
New York: Franz J. Horch, 1952. 1 page on onion skin paper. 4to. Very good. 1 page on onion skin paper. 4to. A signed agreement by Algreen allowing for previously negotiated rights to a Spanish language edition of The Man with the Golden Arm to be extended to additional publishers in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. The novel... Read More
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Collection of Ansaru/Ansaaru Allah Community Ephemera
by [Al Hajj al Imam Isa Abd'Allah Muhammad al Mahdi] York, Dwight D.
Brooklyn: Ansaru Allah, 1983. 5 vols. 8vo. Generally very good. 5 vols. 8vo. A collection of leaflets from the Ansaru [alternately spelled Ansaaru] Allah Community, founded in 1967 by Dwight D. York as the Ansaar Pure Sufi, a Black Power Muslim group that would eventually incorporate ideas from Ancient Egypt, Judaism, Christianity, Annunaki, and Scientology, among other new... Read More
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The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin
by Alighieri, Dante
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First printing. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. 3 vols. 4to. Beige cloth-backed brown boards. Fine, in slightly worn slipcase. First printing. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. 3 vols. 4to.
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La Divine Comedie. 100 Compositions par Edy Legrand
by Dante Aligheri
Paris: L’Union Latine d’Editions, 1938. One of 750 numbered copies. 100 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Loose as issued, in cloth portfolio. Portfolio and title page a bit soiled; plates Fine with original lettered tissue guards. One of 750 numbered copies. 100 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. In Bubble.
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