RECOLLECTIONS OF THE VARIED CAREER
by William F. Draper
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1908. First Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good+ binding. While this memoirs covers many different aspects of Drapers “Varied Career”, Bud Robertson notes in the Nevins bibliography that “[o]ver a third of this autobiography recounts Draper’s experiences as an officer in the 36th Massachusetts, IX Corps [Nevins I, 83]. This copy in... Read More
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[MEXICAN IMPRINT] [CHILDREN] PIRRIMPLIN EN LA LUNA
by Emilio Abreu Gomez | Maria Izquierdo [Drawings]
Mexico: Ediciones Mensaje, 1942. First Edition. 8vo.; a Mexican imprint in wrappers printed in red, blue, pale blue, mauve and black; 31 pages; there are no marks in the book, but there are tidelines to the bottom edge throughout.~~Young Perrimplin finds himself on the moon! Spanish language.
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[SIGNED] [POETRY] THE SLEEPING GYPSY AND OTHER POEMS
by George Garrett | Alys Downs [Drawings]
Austin [Texas]: University of Texas Press, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's black cloth binding, with dusjtacket; viii, [2], 3-70 pages; there are a couple of small spots (ink?) on the front flap, and the flap has been price-clipped;. this copy signed by the sometime Poet Laureate of Virginia... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] ITALIC QUARTET. A RECORD OF THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN HARRY KESSLER, EDWARD JOHNSON, EMERY WALKER AND EDWARD PRINCE IN MAKING THE CRANACH PRESS ITALIC
by John Dreyfus
University Printing House, Cambridge, 1966. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large octavo; in printed floral paper covers, and with matching slipcase; vii, [1], 50 pages, with illustrations; with cloth title label lettered in gilt at the spine; there are several inconsequential spots to the spine; the edition is limited to the 500 copies.~~There are no ownership... Read More
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[MILITARY] A HISTORY OF THE LATE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. WITH A DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF THE GARRISON, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS
by John Drinkwater
London: T. Spilsbury, 1790. Fourth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in full sheep with morocco label; boards have been reinforced at the joints; there is foxing and toning, and the plates have some wear to the edges and occasional damping. xxiv, [1], 2-356 pages, including the Appendix; the title leaf is creased near the gutter and... Read More
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ENCENS, No. 29: A PERSONAL UNIFORM
by Sybille Walter; Samuel Drira
Paris: Encens, 2012. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. 4to.; in the publisher's pictorial boards; with illustrations throughout.~~Fashions by Armani, Dior by Hedi Slimane, Comme des Garcones, Rick Owens, Issey Miyake, Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld; et al. Very Good binding.
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YOUNG WOODLEY
by John Van Druten
New York: The John Day Company, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. The First American Edition of the novel adapted from Van Druten's play of the same name (1925). The play was initially banned in London as it portrayed a schoolboy in love with the headmaster's wife and that we too... Read More
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EXPERIENCE THE TEST OF GOVERNMENT: IN EIGHTEEN ESSAYS. WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806. TO AIDE THE INVESTIGATION OF PRINCIPLES AND OPERATION OF THE EXISTING CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA
by [William Duane]
Philadelphia: William Duane, 1807. Disbound. William Duane was the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora and was a strong advocate of a popular militia, and an opponent of Federal military establishments. In Experience The Test of Government he proposes, inter alia, amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania that would ensure that militia officers would be chosen by militiamen. 60... Read More
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ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN ARTISTS
by F.-G. Dumas
Paris: Librairie d'Art | Ludovic Baschet, 1882. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A sumptuously bound folio volume, in full navy blue levant with titling in gilt to the front board and the spine; with white watered silk doublures, and turn-ins with dentelles; all edges gilt. There are twelve sections bound together: Sir Frederick Leighton; John... Read More
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[CHILDREN] LA PLUS VIEILLE HISTOIRE DU MONDE
by Francois [Seignobosc] [Illustrations] ; Paul Dumas
Paris: Jardin des Modes, 1931. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto; batik printed fabric; [26] pages [13 French-fold leaves] and serrated edges as issued; string-tied, with a woven cloth overlay; the covers are soiled as isoften the case with this book, and the first and last leaves have tide lines. ~~The oldest history in the world -- the creation... Read More
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[LITERATURE] SPARKING CYANIDE
by Agatha Christie ; Illustrated by Michael Philip Dunbabin
London: The Folio Society, 2022. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Michael Philip Dunbabin. Octavo; in the publisher’s pictorial cloth covered boards; 234 pages; with 7 full colored illustrations by Michael Philip Dunbabin; housed in a pink slipcase. Near Fine binding.
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ANNALS OF MEDICINE, FOR THE YEAR 1800. EXHIBITING A CONCISE VIEW OF THE LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE AND MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY. VOL. V. (VOLUME FIVE ONLY)
by Andrew Duncan; Andrew Duncan
Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute for G. G. and J. Robinson, London; by Adam Neill and Company, 1801. Half Leather. Good binding. Volume V only of Andrew Duncan and Andrew Duncan's Annals of Medicine, for the Year 1800. Exhibiting the latest discoveries of medicine of that year. Lacking the front endpaper. With no marks. Boards reattached and... Read More
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HORACE'S SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND ART OF POETRY, DONE INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES
by Horace | S. Dunster (Translator)
London: W. Mears, C. Rivington, R. Ware, and D. Browne, 1739. Fifth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A clean copy of the Fifth Edition. Bound in calf, with chipped and faded paper labels in compartments. Front hinge cracked but holding. Nameplate and catalogue cutout on front pastedown. Faint dampstaining to bottom edge of the textblock. Very Good... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] THE BROTHERS
by Terence | Albrecht Durer
Kentfield, Calif: Produced by hand at the Allen Press, 1968. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher's printed mustard colored boards backed with woven fabric, with the upper cover printed with a Durer illustration of an ancient theater; [34] leaves, with 27 illustrations taken from drawings by Durer; headers printed in brown with chapter number in teal; housed... Read More
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VEGA AND OTHER POEMS (Uncorrected Proof Copy)
by Lawrence Durrell
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. An Uncorrected Proof Copy of this collection of poems. In the publisher's tan wrappers; nearly a fresh copy with no marks of any kind. Fine binding.
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LIFELINES: FOUR POEMS
by Lawrence Durrell
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1974. Near Fine binding. Four of Durrell's poems, which first appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman and Encounter. "This edition, limited to 115 copies, has been hand-printed at the Tragara Press in December 1974"; this is #108. In dark blue sewn wrappers, printed in black. Near Fine binding. ... Read More
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DEUS LOCI
by Lawrence Durrell
Privately Printed by Di Mato Vito for the author, 1950. First Edition. Fine binding. Signed. An out of sequence copy of the First Printing (200 numbered copies); signed by Lawrence Durrell. 8 pp. in stapled wrappers; this copy unnumbered. Buff printed wrappers. Issued in variant colors of covers, with no precedence of issue. Fine.... Read More
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[RELIGION] THE SAMARITANS OF MOLOKAI: THE LIVES OF FATHER DAMIAN AND BROTHER DUTTON AMONG THE LEPERS
by Charles Dutton
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's orange cloth binding; with dustjacket. [xvi] 278 pp., followed by Bibliography. There are no marks of any kind in the book. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[CHILDREN] OLIVER THE WAYWARD OWL; SKETCHES BY DWIG
by August Derleth | Dwig [Illustrator]; Illustrated by Dwig
Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1945. Likely the First (and probably only) Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Dwig. 8vo; bound in printed paper over boards; a lovely copy of what must be a very fragile book; contents are clean and binding is sound; bit of expected shelfwear to the extremities, but quite a nice copy, lacking... Read More
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[HUNTING] THE STILL-HUNTER
by Theodore S Van Dyke
New York: Fords,Howard, & Hulbert, 1883. First Edition. Very Good binding. 8vo; in publisher's green cloth; with decorations stamped in blind and gilt and gilt titling on the spine; (5) 6-390 pages; trivial wear the spine; with the former owner’s bookplate on the front paste-down; 6 pages of ads in the back of the book.~~Exhaustive in deer knowledge... Read More
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[LOST CAUSE] SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CIRCULAR
by Jubal A. Early
Richmond, VA, 1873. This Southern Historical Society Official Circular was written by its President, Jubal A. Early, dated September 15, 1873. Jubal Early (1816-1894) was a Confederate army officer, lawyer, and Virginia state legislator. Early was also a seminal proponent of the Lost Cause movement and a prominent white supremacist. ~~In this circular Early gives a brief history behind... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] FLEURS DE FRANCE. FABLES ET EQUISSES
by Raymond Hesse | Joseph Hemard [Eaux-fortees]
La Traditions, 1946. In an edition of 550 copiie; 16 lovelycolor plates folded in portfolio; this is example #236.
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FOR ALL THE SAINTS: A PROTEST PRIMER
by David Eberhardt
Baltimore, Maryland: Self-published, 2017. Spiral Bound. Near Fine binding. Signed. This edition being what the publisher calls "The 4th edition (or first edition 4th state?) of this books (with "final" additions) has been printed by the firm of FEDEX numbered 150-200, signed by the author, February 2017". This is copy 187 and is numbered and signed by... Read More
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[LITEATURE] FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM
by Umberto Eco
London: The Folio Society, 2016. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto, in the publisher's grey pictorial cloth boards, and house in a blue paper-covered slipcase; xii, [xiii]; [2], 3-609 pages; there are no marks of any kind in the book; the slipcase is mildly bumped.~~As usual, a literary masterpiece by Mr. Eco.~~. Near Fine binding.
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EARLY LESSONS, IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. I.
by Maria Edgeworth
Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1823. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Rather charming children's lessons by Mrs. Edgeworth. Containing Harry and Lucy, Part I; Harry and Lucy, Part II; The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; The Cherry Orchard; and Frank, Part I. With fifteen handcolored plates, including the frontispiece. One plate has a bit of ancient... Read More
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