The Taming of the Shrew. A Comedy. (First Edition After the Folios)
by Shakespeare, William
London: For Jacob Tonson, 1709. Near Fine. (An extract from the first Rowe edition of 1709, which was issued in 6 volumes), pages 669-739, with frontispiece; this frontis illustration is of importance because of the contemporary costumes it illustrates. Tonson's work is: FIRST edition after the folios, FIRST octavo edition, FIRST illustrated edition, FIRST edition to insert act... Read More
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THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Plays, Comedies, Histories, Tragedies)
by Shakespeare, William
London: J. Tonson, 1734. Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo. Frontispiece by P. Fourdrinier, 71pp.; bound to style in recent paneled leather, single gilt rule border, spine lettering gilt. A lovely copy. No separate edition of this play appeared until the 1734 publication of competing editions by Jacob Tonson and Robert Walker, who both also issued it in sets of Shakepeare's... Read More
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The Merchant of Venice. A Comedy. (First Edition After the Folios)
by Shakespeare, William
London: For Jacob Tonson, 1709. Near Fine. (An extract from the first Rowe edition of 1709, which was issued in 6 volumes), pages 523-593, with frontispiece; this frontis illustration is of importance because of the contemporary costumes it illustrates. Tonson's work is: FIRST edition after the folios, FIRST octavo edition, FIRST illustrated edition, FIRST edition to insert act... Read More
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Greatest Tragedies of William Shakespeare
by Shakespeare, William
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Fine. Rockwell Kent. octavo, 639 pages; publisher's black full-leather binding, decorated in red and gilt; all edges gilt. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark. With the illustrations of Rockwell Kent. As new.
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Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will. A Comedy. First Edition After the Folios
by Shakespeare, William
London: For Jacob Tonson, 1709. Very Good+. (An extract from the first Rowe edition of 1709, which was issued in 6 volumes), pages 819-886, with frontispiece; this frontis illustration is of importance because of the contemporary costumes it illustrates. Tonson's work is: FIRST edition after the folios, FIRST octavo edition, FIRST illustrated edition, FIRST edition to insert act... Read More
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As You Like it. A Comedy. (First Edition After the Folios)
by Shakespeare, William
London: For Jacob Tonson, 1709. Near Fine. (An extract from the first Rowe edition of 1709, which was issued in 6 volumes), pages 595-667, with frontispiece; this frontis illustration is of importance because of the contemporary costumes it illustrates. Tonson's work is: FIRST edition after the folios, FIRST octavo edition, FIRST illustrated edition, FIRST edition to insert act... Read More
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PRESS CUTTINGS: a Topical Sketch Compiled from the Editorial and Correspondence Columns of the Daily Papers By Bernard Shaw , as Performed By the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909
by Shaw, George Bernard
London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1909. LIMITED EDITION. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo. 1/100 copies with "Price One Shilling./Net." on lower right corner of front wrapper. 39pp. Bound in pink printed wrappers; tiny chip to corner of rear wrapper otherwise nearly fine housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, in cloth covered... Read More
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The Memoirs of MME Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun, 1755-1789
by Shelley, Gerard (Translator)
London (1930): John Hamilton Ltd. First Edition. Near Fine. Beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (for Marshall Fields) in full terra-cotta leather, with custom felt-lined slipcase. Octavo, 217 pages, all edges gilt, marbled end papers matching the paper on slipcase; with dozens of portraits. A lovely copy in a stunning binding. Spine lightly age-toned.
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HINDU TRIBES AND CASTES, as Represented in Benares
by Sherring, M.A.
London: Trubner and Co, 1872. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Half-Leather. Very Good. Quarto. 405(1)pp., illustrated with 5 black and white lithographs; bound in half brown straight grained morocco over brown cloth, raised bands, two compartments with leather labels gilt; spine faded to tan; ghost of small sticker left near foot, no other markings except small book binder's ticket... Read More
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Bubbles. A Self-Portrait
by Sills, Beverly (SIGNED) and Lawrence Linderman
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. First edition, first issue, with the first line of text thus: "When I was only three.....I sang my first aria in pubic." SIGNED BY BEVERLY SILLS ON FFEP without personalization. 240 pp. A fine copy in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. With Kroch's & Brentano's first... Read More
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BEVERLY An Autobiography
by Sills, Beverly (SIGNED) and Lawrence Linderman
New York: Bantam Books, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY BEVERLY SILLS ON FEP. 356pp. Bound n 1/4 black cloth over black paper covered boards stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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The Unlikely Spy (Inscribed)
by Silva, Daniel
New York: Villard/Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 481; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $25.00 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson. First printing, of author's first book, with full number line.
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Hyperion
by Simmons, Dan
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Fine. Byron Taylor. octavo, 482 pages; publisher's blue full leather binding, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt, silk bookmark. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" is laid in, Easton bookplate on ffep, with owner blind stamp thereon. A lovely copy.
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ANOTHER PAMELA or, Virtue Still Rewarded
by Sinclair, Upton (SIGNED)
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY UPTON SINCLAIR ON FFEP without personalization. 314 pp., (1) pp. catalog of author's other works, Bound in pink cloth, boards decoratively ruled in blue, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blue, a fine copy in nearly fine unclipped dust... Read More
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W.S.C. A CARTOON BIOGRAPHY
by (Sir Winston S. Curchill) URQUHART, Fred (Compiler). Forword By Harold Nicolson
London: Cassell & Company, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bound in original black cloth with gilt lettering spine. Near fine copy with scattered foxing in a near fine dust jacket with foxing and slight edge wear. 242 pp.
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The Foreign Policy of Senegal
by Skurnik, W. A. E.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. First Edition. Good+. octavo, 308 pages; original orange cloth, printed in brown. No dust jacket, some underlining. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, a scholar on international politics, especially South Africa, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.
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Like a Charm (Signed)
by Slaughter, Karin (ed.)
New York: William Morrow, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 340 pages; SIGNED on the title page, by 8 of the authors whose stories are contained herein. First Printing. Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $21.95 on front flap. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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DESIGN DATA FOR RADIO TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS. A Reference Book of Tables and Simplified Formulas Necessary for the Correct Design of Radio Circuits
by SLEEPER, M. B.
New York: Norman W, Henley, 1922. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Octavo. Engineering Data is Made Available to the Experimenters, and Helpful Tables are Presented to the Radio Engineer. A very good copy in staple bound printed wrappers. Mild stains and chip front panel. Text clean. A rare copy of an early book on radio transmitters and receivers.... Read More
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ABSORPTION OF NaCl, KCl AND KI IN THE FAR ULTRAVIOLET
by SMITH, Albert
Physical Review, 1933. Original Wraps. Near Fine. A Near Fine offprint in original printed wrappers from Physical Review, October 1, 1933, Volume 44, pp. 520-523 with horizonal crease. 8vo.
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Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy
by Smith, Norman
London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Small Octavo. 276 pages, 2 pp. ads at rear. Bound in original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Chapter IV covers the Cartesian principles in Spinoza and Leibniz. Neat owner name on FEP; a near fine copy.
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[Binding] THE CARVING OF MOUNT RUSHMORE (Bound in Full Beige Buffalo Hide)
by Smith, Rex Alan
New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. SPECIAL DELUXE EDITION. Full-Leather. Fine. Octavo. SPECIAL DELUXE EDITION, 415 pages, bound in full beige BUFFALO HIDE, and SIGNED on an official bookplate on the front pastedown AND a slice of Mt. Rushmore granite mounted within a recessed compartment built into the front pastedown; ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED by the author on the front free... Read More
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A Falcon Flies
by Smith, Wilbur
London: Heinemann, 1980. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 523(1) pages; fine in dust jacket, with light wear at extremities, price-clipped.
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SANDHURST. The History of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1741-1961
by SMYTH, John. (SIGNED) Foreword By Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOHN "JACKIE" SMYTH ON FFEP. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering spine. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with small stains front dust jacket panel and fading spine, Owner insription ffep.... Read More
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Light from the Sanctuary of the Royal Arch (Masonry)
by Snodgrass, Charles Albert
Kingsport, Tenn: Southern Publishers, Inc, 1932. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, "First Edition, May, 1932" stated on copyright page. Publisher's original red cloth, printed in gilt; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.50 on front flap and minor repair at head of spine. Illustrated in color and black and white. Errata slip tipped in at page 19. Internally... Read More
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Eros. A Series of Connected Poems - Inscribed By the Author
by Somerville, Lorenzo
London: Trubner and Co, 1866. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 12mo. Inscribed on FEP, "Compliments of the Author." 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; yellow coated end papers; 142 pages. Internally clean; unopened. Cloth shows lighter areas, but very little wear; very good+.
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