Maximus of Tyre on the Dispute about Images
by Shahn, Ben. (Blumenthal, Joseph, The Spiral Press)
NY: Pantheon, 1963. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine/VG+. Shahn, Ben. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Near fine in price-clipped dw that has a small chip along top panel and modestky edgewron elsewhere. INSCRIBED BY TYPOGRAPHER JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, publisher of The Spiral Press, who designed the typography for this book, on the colophon: "I was proud to have/ been... Read More
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Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
by Shakespeare, William. Austen, John (illustrator)
London: Selwyn & Blount, 1922. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, engraved title, numerous full-page plates, pictorial head- and tail-pieces, woodcuts in text by Austen. Vellum-backed, black boards, upper cover decorated in gilt and turquoise, illustrated endpapers. Spine browned with shallow loss at head. Internals quite nice. With the bookplate of author Francis de Neufville Schroeder (1901... Read More
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The New Shakespeare (39 volumes, complete run, 1921- 1966). (Works)
by Shakespeare, William. J. Dover Wilson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, et al (eds)
Cambridge: The University Press at Cambridge, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 39 volumes, all uniform 12 mo, brown cloth, gilt spine titles. Books are about very good or better, many of which have a bookplate from the same collector, 14 of which have a dustjacket in variuosly worn conditio, some with loss, ranging from fair to good.... Read More
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GALAXIES
by Shapley, Howard
Philadelphia: Blackiston Company, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Stated first edition on copyright page dated 1943, and also printing of 1947. As the essays are based on lectures previously published we expect this is the first appearance in book form. An apparently unread copy in better than very good dustjacket.
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THE INNER METAGALAXY
by Shapley, Harlow
New Haven/ London: Yale/ Oxford, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Some neat underlining in about 10 pages of the book. Solid copy in rubbed dustjacket.
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Our Theatres in the Nineties (The Standard Edition - 3 volumes)
by Shaw, Bernard
Constable & Company. Revised and Reprinted and First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/NF. Unread, unused, like new copies in red cloth, gte in scarce dustwrappers that are slightly soiled to spine. The collectible set.
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Geneva
by Shaw, Bernard
London: Constable, 1939. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine +/No Dustjacket. slightly rubbed, interior fine, no markings, gift inscriptions, or previous owner names.
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WIDOWERS' HOUSES. A Comedy by G. Bernard Shaw. First Acted at the Independent Theatre in London
by Shaw, (George) Bernard
London: Henry and Co, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce first edition of Shaw's first play to be staged. Dark olive cloth, somewhat soiled to more of a brown appearance, gilt title front and spine. Sides untrimmed. Minor tips and ends wear, solidly bound.
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HISTORICAL MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA showing the Indian names of streams and villages, and paths of trave; the sites of old forts and battle-fields; teh successive purchases from the Indians; and the names and dates of counties and county towns; with tables of forts and proprietary maonors
by Sheafer, P. W. and others (editors)
Philadelphia: Publication Fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to, black linen, title pressed in gilt front, 26 pages, map attached to rear pastedown, measuring 39 x 26". An apparently unused copy, leaves of booklet slightly toned, as expected given paper pulp. Map is remarkably preserved, still in original folds, and apparently unused.... Read More
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY EDITED BY MRS. SHELLEY (4 volumes complete)
by Shelley, Percy Shelley. (Bayntun)
London: Edward Moxon, 1829. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First collected edition of Shelley's works, with Queen Mab bound in at rear of volume 1. Bound by Bayntun in polished blue half leather, gilt to spine, over light blue linen, teg. Some wear to spine tips and edges. Trace spotting confined to prelims, titles.
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PRIMO TIME
by Sher, Antony. (Levi, Primo)
London: Nick Hern Books, 2005. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Actor / author Sher's account of bringing Primo Levi's life and work to the stage in the course of adapting Levi's If This Is A Man for The National Theatre in London. SIGNED by Sher on the title page.
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ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
by Sherwood, Robert. (Mielziner, Jo)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ownership copy of stage designer Jo Mielziner, with his signature upper right corner dated 1938 of the ffe. ABE LINCOLN was the first production of The Playwrights' Company formed in 1938 by Sherwood along with fellow playwrights Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, and Kurt Weill, for which Mielziner designed the... Read More
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IDIOT'S DELIGHT
by Sherwood, Robert
London: William Heinemann, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Anti-Hitler play performed in Washington DC in 1935, as Hitler occupied the Rhineland. This, the English edition, follows the London premiere of the play in 1938 as Hitler occupied Austria and bombed Spain. Signed by 27 members of the cast, including leads Raymond Massey and Tamara Geva on the... Read More
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Cruisings in the Cascades: A Narrative of Travel, Explorations, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing, with Special Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, the Elk, Antelope, Rocky Mountain Goat, and Deer; Also, on Trouting in the Rocky Mountains; on a Montana Round-up; Life among the Cowboys, etc.
by Shields, George O. ("Coquina")
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good -. First edition, 8vo, brown cloth with antlered buck pictorial and titles stamped in gilt, double-blind ruled front cover, 339 + 14 page publisher's catalog in rear, illustrated. Spine faded, slight water stain to upper corners near spine that has very slightly warped covers, not affecting rest of binding or... Read More
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The Great Siberian Railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin
by Shoemaker, Michael Myers
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. yellow cloth, titles stamped in black, vii, 243 (2), foldout map in rear, gte, sides untrimmed. 30 illustrations - 29 duotone photos (incl frontispiece) plus rear map. Owner name and address dated 1939 at bottom of ffe verso beneath list of other books by the author.... Read More
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A Bundle of Papers
by Siegvolk, Paul
New York: G. P . Putnam's Sons, 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Dustjacket. brown cloth binding, beveled edges, gilt pressed decoration front panel, gilt lettering spine, decorative endpapers, slightly worn at spine edges, else clean with no previous owner markings.
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WINES OF THE WORLD Pocket Series 1 and 2
by Simon, Andre L.
London: The Wine and Food Society, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Uncommonly found complete, scarcer still in decorated cardboard slipcases, which show some wear and some paper over board loss here and there. Individual volumes, 8 titles to each series, show the slightest edgewear top of spine, internals fine, apparently unused. First Series, 1951, is second editon... Read More
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THE PHILHARMONIC GETS DRESSED
by Simont Marc (illustrations). Kuskin, Karla (story by)
NY: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Later children's title illustrated by artist Marc Simont (1915 - 2013), whose long career brought him two Caldecott honors and one Caldecott medal. (Simont also illustrated books for James Thurber, another author/artist, when Thurber's sight failed in later life.) Inscribed to close friends and fellow residents... Read More
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Theory and Practice of Modern Guerrilla Warfare
by Singh, Balji. Mei, Ko-wang
Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine book in very good price clipped dw. Inscribed by author Singh on ffe and dated by him 4/20/71.
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'SEWING SUSIE" A STORY OF GETTYSBURG
by Singmaster, Elsie
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good -. An apparently unread copy in used but presentable dustjacket, inscribed by author on the ffe: "To xxxxx from her friend Elsie Signmaster Lewars a souvenir of the visit to Gettyuburg March 22, 1931" Singmaster (1879 - 1958) was a native of Pennsylvania where she set many of her... Read More
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THE TENTH MUSE
by Sir Harry Luke. Maclaren, William (dustjacket design and text decorations)
London: Putnam, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Uncommon cuisine title in original dustjacket with painterly pictorial by William Maclaren. Gift inscription dated 1978 in calliogrpagic script ffe. Dustjacket price-slipped with some professional internal repair. Still, highly presentable.
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Moon-Rise & Other Poems
by Sisson, C. H.
Snake River Press, 1979. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Gerald Woods. Printed on handmade paper, Folio. Half morocco. Book designed by Geoffrey Trenaman. Number 3 of 70 printed copies. Near fine.
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The Malahat Review No. 35
by Skelton, Robin and William David Thomas
British Columbia, Canada: University of Victoria, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE
by Sloane, Eric
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Plainly signed by Sloane on the ffe. Book near fine, dustjacket has a slightly sun-faded spine.
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AN IMAGE OF BARNS
by Sloane, Eric
NY: Funk and Wagnall's, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Very Good. First edition with an atypical and personal sketch by Sloane on teh ffe. Typically, Sloane sketches covered bridges or tools or whatever is the subject of his book to the inscribee. In this case, Sloane has sketched a Christmas greeting from one couple to another which recalls a... Read More
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