Some Poems
by Auden, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. Hardcover. Orig. tan boards lettered in blue. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. 80 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Owner inscription free front endpaper.
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Homage To Clio
by Auden, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. purple cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine in very good price clipped dust wrapper. 91 pages. 22 x14 cm. Slight loss at head, nicked at foot dust wrapper.
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Thank You, Poems
by Auden, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. flat back nay cloth spine lettered in gilt and gray boards. Fine in price clipped dust wrapper. 57 pages. 22 x14 cm. Note by Edward Mendelson.
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a melodrama in three acts On The Frontier
by Auden, W.H & Christopher Isherwood
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth nicked at backstrip head. Very good. 123 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Bookplate "From The Library of Julian Barnes," a prominent English author in his own right. Book label of Myers Co. Booksellers London. Small owner inscription front free endpaper.
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Encounter April 1954
by Auden, W.H. (Guest Editorial)
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. First printing. Stiff Wraps. Orig. light tan printed stiff wrapper. Near fine. 88 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Entitled "The Word and the Machine," Auden discusses the negative effect of the Machine Age on poetry and the poet.
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Audubon Early Drawings
by Audubon, John James
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine beige cloth slipcase color printed front cover label. 250 pages. 28.5 x 36 cm. 114 color plates printed recto only on high quality glossy stock. Introduction by Richard Rhodes. Commentary by Scott V. Edwards. Foreword by Leslie Morris. References. Index and... Read More
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Tapies Catalogue raisonne: Vols.1-4, 1943-1981
by Augusti, Anna
Paris & Barcelona: Editions Cercle D'Art & Ediciones Poligrafa, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrappers. 4 vols. Tapies, Antoni. Square folio: Vol.1. 1943-1960, 545pp, 133 plates in color, and 850 illustrations in black and white. Vol.2. 1961-1968, 512pp, 189 plates in color, and 1027 illustrations in black and white. Vol.3. 1969-1975,... Read More
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Narrative Of An Ascent To The Summit Of Mont Blanc on The 8th And 9th August, 1827
by Auldjo, John
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter brown calf and brown boards. Very good. Auldjo, John. 120 pages. 29.4 x 22.9 cm. Large Paper Copy, with half title, 15 lithographed plates [7 on India paper and mounted], 2 folding maps with one hand-colored, 1 chart, 2 hand-colored folding tables. This is Auldjo's... Read More
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Dreamland Shores; A Book of Verse for Children and Others Written & Pictured by Norman Ault
by Ault, Norman
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. front cover illustrated slate blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine. 83 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Black and white illustrations and six tipped-in color plates. Aside from his book illustration Ault was also noted as a scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and Alexander... Read More
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Northanger Abbey And Persuation; With Illustrations By Hugh Thomson And An Introduction By Austin Dobson
by Austen, Jane
London: Macmillan And Co; Limited, 1902. Hardcover. Burgundy pebble grained cloth front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. xiv, 444 pages. Twenty full page line illustrations for Northranger Abbey and twenty for Persuation. All plates clean and fresh as are the interior contents. 8 pages of adverts at rear with last few toned. Owner inscription front... Read More
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Daphnis & Chloe Translated Out of The Greek of Longus by George Thornley in 1657
by Austen, John (Illustrator)
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1926. Hardcover. Orig. decorated white cloth. Teg. Very good. 200 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 219 of 250. Twelve color lithographs and a host of black and white text illustrations by Austen. Traditionally ascribed to the Greek sophist, Longus who lived in the second or third century A.D. Backstrip darkened, scattered spotting... Read More
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National Gallery of Australia: an introduction to the collection
by National Gallery of Australia
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 74 pages. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2". Copiously illustrated in color.
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The Act And By-Laws Of The Bank Of Japan
by No Author
NP: NP, 1914. Original Wraps. Orig. brown printed wrappers. Very good. 48 pages. 22 x 15 cm. The Bank of Japan Act. Promulgated by Imperial Ordinance No. 32 of June 27th in the Fifteenth Year of Meiji (1882). The Bank of Japan was founded in Meiji 15 (1882) after a Belgian model. This copy carries withdrawal stamp of... Read More
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The Early Printers' Chapel in England
by Avis, F.C.
London: F.C. Avis, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Index. Compact and succinct, yet the most complete accountof the printing companionship in England between 1476 and 1800. The origin of the name is sought. A large collection of Chapel rules, with appropriate sanctions, is included. Limited edition, copy 76 of 350. ... Read More
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Temples Anciens Et Modernes; Ou Observations Historiques Et Critiques Sur Les Plus Celebres Monumens D'Architecture Grecques Et Gothique
by Avril, Louis, Abbe Mai
London & Paris: Chez Musier, 1774. First edition. Hardcover. Modern brown cloth and marbled boards. Fine. 347 [3] pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Seven engraved plates, foldouts, including the Pantheon, the Basilica of Saint Paul, Santa Sophia at Constantinople, Saint Peters and the Coliseum. The author, a sometime Jesuit, published this work under the pseudonym M.L.M. John Soane... Read More
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De Figuris Veneris
by Avril, Paul (pseudonym) Édouard-Henri Avril [Illustrator] & Forberg (Friedrich Karl)
Paris: Charles Hirsch, 1906. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards and lighter brown cloth quarter spine, front illustration on paper. Orig. intact cloth ties. Near fine. 24.5 X 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 118 of 175 copies. De figuris Veneris is an anthology of ancient Greek and ancient Roman writings on erotic topics, discussed objectively and classified and grouped by... Read More
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Bygone Lancashire
by Axon, Ernest
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 244 pages. 21 x 14 cm, illustrated. Index. List of Subscribers. Publisher adverts at rear. Limited edition, copy 417 of 750. Bevelled edges, backstrip chipped at head, worn at foot. Tight copy.
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Chinese Ceramics The Koger Collection
by Ayers, John
New York: Sotheby, 1985. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 180 pages. 28 x 21 cm. 154 plates in color, an exhibition first shown at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.
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The Artist As Saltimbanque
by Bachinski, Walter (Illustrator)
Ontario: Shanty Bay Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated black cloth decorated in red. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase . Folio, 72 pages including blanks. 38 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy five of 55 for sale printed on 200 gsm arches cover in 18 point Deepdene Roman signed by Bachinski and Janis Butler. Four full-page... Read More
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Constantin Brancusi 1876 - 1957
by Bach, Rowell & Timkin
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 406 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. A retrospective exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Selected Bibliography. Index of Names.
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The Essayes Or Counsels Civill And Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban
by Bacon, Francis
London: Cresset Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 198 pages. Folio, 39.5 x 26. Limited edition, copy 17 of 250 on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Printed in red and black with wide text margins. Titles and initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe,... Read More
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Paintings May 23 - June 28, 1990
by Bacon, Francis
New York: Marlborough, 1990. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 44 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Catalogue of paintings in color, each printed full page.
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Olaf Otto Becker Broken LIne Greenland 2003-2006
by Badger, Gerry & Cristoph Schaden (Essays & Text)
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue/gray cloth, pictorial color photo inset front cover, relief designs to the left of the inset. Fine. 152 pages. 34.5 x 27.5 cm. Color photographs of the rugged coastlines and promontories of Greenland, all printed recto only on glossy, high quality stock. A stunning survey of the frozen north. Text... Read More
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La Couleur Dans L'Habitation 120 Projects D'Artistes Modernes
by Baer, C.H. (Preface)
Paris: Gustave Ficker, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 8 pages in text. 29.5 x 24 cm. 120 full page color plates printed recto only, including designs by H. Kammerer, P. Lazlo, M. Stier, et al. Text in French. Bright and fresh copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer; With essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter. Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete
by Baer, Ronni
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. delft blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index.
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